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Explain how Ptolemy’s concept of epicycles improved on Aristotle’s model of how objects move in the solar system.
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Explain how Ptolemy’s concept of epicycles improved on Aristotle’s model of how objects move in the solar system.

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Ptolemy accepted Aristotle's idea that the Sun and the planets revolve around a spherical Earth, a geocentric view. Ptolemy developed this idea through observation and in mathematical detail.
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