For over 1000 years most people believed that the sun circled the Earth. The scientific basis for this came from the book The Almagest written by this thinker.
- Aristarchus
- Hipparchus
- Aristotle
- Ptolemy
Answer
The correct answer is D) Ptolemy.
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