How One of Science's Biggest Errors Persisted for 1,500 Years

Ptolemy's compendium, later known as the Almagest, dominated Western astronomy for 15 centuries. It was also wrong, and it took the fall of an empire to fix it.#solarsystem #sun #moon #mathematics #physics #astronomy #history #stargazing #columns #wondersky #section-Articles
How One of Science's Biggest Errors Persisted for 1,500 Years

How One of Science's Biggest Errors Persisted for 1,500 Years

Ptolemy's compendium, later known as the Almagest, dominated Western astronomy for 15 centuries. It was also wrong, and it took the fall of an empire to fix it.

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