All 3 Uses of
Ptolemaic System
in
Dante's Inferno
- [1] The sun, a planet according to the Ptolemaic system†
Canto 1-3 *
- Here I saw both Socrates and Plato, who before the others stand nearest to him; Democritus, who ascribes the world to chance; Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Zeno; and I saw the good collector of the qualities, Dioscorides, I mean; and I saw Orpheus, Tully, and Linus, and moral Seneca, Euclid the geometer, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Galen, and Averrhoes, who made the great comment.†
Canto 4-6
- [3] The third ring of ice, named for that Ptolemy of Jericho who slew his father-in-law, the high-priest Simon, and his sons (1 Maccabees wi†
Canto 31-34
Definition:
pre-Copernicus theory that supported the belief that the planets revolve around the earth which was thought to be the center of the universe