Lyceum & Book Club - Week 10 - Aristotle and Ptolemy
- Feb 5, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 30, 2022
We want to examine just how Aristotle's flaw view of the universe became cemented in scientific fact so thoroughly that it would not be seriously challenged by anyone until Copernicus, and even he waited until he was on his deathbed before he dared published anything to the contrary of Aristotle's accepted view.
We are going to watch a number of videos that introduce us to the Ptolemaic System/ Model of the Universe.
Heliocentric-Ptolemaic Models of the Universe - 6.13 min
Ptolemy and the Ptolemaic System - 5:46 min
We are going to watch the short (1:03 min) video embedded in this Brittanica article about the Ptolemy Theory of the Universe. (we will come back and read the whole article later)
Now let us take a wider overview of how our view of the Universe changed.
Khan Academy - How Did View of the Universe Change - 11.03 min
We will now read an introductory article on Claudius Ptolemy:
Khan Academy - Claudius Ptolemy
and we will watch several videos that go into more depth on the particulars of how the Ptolemaic system worked.
Epicycles Animation - Metfan869 - 20 sec
Ptolemy's model of the universe - - Andrej rehab - 5.58 min
Ptolemy's geocentric universe - (aka Claudius Ptolemy’s model) -twistedlot - 2.51 min
clip from "The Universe -- Infinite Frontier" about astronomer/geographer/mathematician Ptolemy
Geocentric Modes of the Universe - The Geocentric Modes of the Universe Explained with Fair Examples - iitutor.com - 16.11 min
And now, we will go back and read the article on Ptolemy in Brittanica:
Book Selection - continue reading "The Princess of Mars"
Everyone should be finished by next Thursday when we meet again for the Lyceum & Book Club.
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