Claudius Prolemy

Claudius Ptolemy, born around 100 CE in Alexandria, was a Roman citizen of Greek descent who became the most influential astronomer of antiquity. His Almagest, completed circa 150 CE, presented a geocentric universe where Earth stood immobile at the center, with planets moving in complex orbits. This system dominated medieval science until Copernicus and Galileo overturned it. Ptolemy also authored Geography, recording coordinates for 8,000 places, shaping maps for centuries. His works in optics, harmonics, and mathematics included a star catalog and trigonometric tables. Though little is known of his life, his intellectual legacy defined Greco-Roman science and guided civilizations for generations.

If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false