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Claudius Ptolemy
87-150
Greek astronomer, mathematician, geographer

Ptolemy believed in a geocentric cosmological structure. He wrote the Almagest, which mathematically accounted for the motion of each heavenly body.

Ptolemaeus crater

Ptolemaeus crater close-up
9.3°S/1.9°W      diameter 164 km