Ptolemaic (adj.)

  1. of or relating to the astronomer Ptolemy

    [ Syn: ptolemaic ]

  2. of or relating to the geocentric Ptolemaic system; in the Ptolemaic system of planetary motion the earth is fixed as the center of the universe with the sun and moon and planets revolving around it

    [ Syn: ptolemaic ]

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