Question

Who were the Greek philosophers who taught that the earth sat motionless in the center of the heavens, while the sun, moon, and planets went around it?

A) Pythagoras and Euclid
B) Socrates and Plato
C) Aristotle and Ptolemy
D) Archimedes and Hippocrates

Answer 1

Aristotle and Ptolemy were the Greek philosophers who taught that the earth sat motionless in the center of the heavens, while the sun, moon, and planets went around it.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Greek philosophers who taught that the earth sat motionless in the center of the heavens, while the sun, moon, and planets went around it were C) Aristotle and Ptolemy. One Greek thinker, Aristarchus of Samos, suggested that Earth was moving around the Sun, but his idea was rejected by Aristotle and most of the ancient Greek scholars. They believed that if Earth moved, the stars should shift their positions in the sky relative to more distant stars, which they did not observe.