by Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BCE, these ideas were not successful in replacing the view of a stationary spherical Earth, and from the 2nd century CE the predominant model, which would be inherited by medieval astronomy, was the geocentric model described in Ptolemy's Almagest.

Classical antiquity

Pythagoreans

The first non-geocentric model of the universe

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