| The Ptolemaic system had been denied by many high officials and Jesuit astronomers even before Galileo was born. |
| These phases revealed that Venus and Earth were sometimes on opposite sides of the Sun, a configuration impossible in the Ptolemaic theory. |
| More than a thousand years later the Ptolemaic dynasty commissioned a history of Egypt that mentioned a powerful female king. |
| Suppose I decide that I believe the Ptolemaic system is more plausible than the Copernican system. |
| The earliest unequivocal evidence for emerald mining in Egypt dates to Ptolemaic times, and even for this period the evidence is scant. |
| Collectively Kepler's Laws superseded the ancient Ptolemaic concept of a spherical universe with epicyclic motion. |
