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What was a direct impact to ptelomys theory?

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Ptolemy enhanced the effect of eccentricity by making the epicycle's centre sweep out equal angles along the deferent in equal times as seen from a point that he called the equant.

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How did Ptolemy impact the world? In addition to his astronomical work, Ptolemy recorded longitudes and latitudes in degrees for roughly 8,000 locations on his world map, giving a detailed image of the inhabited world as it was known to a resident of the Roman Empire at its height.

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