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: [[Ptolemy]] used these [[observation]]s to claim that the [[Earth]] was at the centre of the [[Universe]] and [[The Solar System]] and that everything in the [[Universe]] [[orbit]]s the [[Earth]].
: This was known as the [[Geocentric Model]] of [[The Solar System]].
: Many people believed [[Ptolemy]] because it fit well with their religious beliefs that a [[god]] created the [[Earth]] before the [[Sun]], [[star]]s and [[planet]]s.
====Heliocentric Model====