| 单词 | Ptolemaic system |
| 释义 | Ptolemaic /tol-i-māˈik/adjective(also Ptolemaean /-mēˈən/) relating to or associated with the Ptolemies, Greek kings of Egypt (from Alexander the Great's general to Cleopatra's son), or to Ptolemy the astronomer (fl 150AD) Ptolemāˈist noun A believer in the Ptolemaic system, Ptolemy's form of the ancient Greek planetary theory, according to which the heavenly bodies revolve about the earth in motions compounded of eccentric circles and epicycles |
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