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Ptolemaic system

the theory, systematized by Ptolemy, postulating the earth as the center or fixed point of the universe, around which the celestial bodies move

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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