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Which ancient thinker first proposed a model of the universe with the earth at the center.
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Which ancient thinker first proposed a model of the universe with the earth at the center.

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According to www.librarypoint.org, Ptolemy was an astronomer and mathematician. He believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe. The word for earth in Greek is geo, so we call this idea a "geocentric" theory.

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