According to NASA, Eudoxus was the first to create a model of the geocentric universe around 380 BCE. Aristotle then came up with a more detailed geocentric model, which was later refined by ...

Unknown to Aristotle at the time ... heliocentric model wasn’t much more accurate than the Ptolemaic geocentric model – it didn’t even do away with the need for epicycles.

Ptolemy wasn’t the first to present this view of the universe (in fact, the geocentric universe is called the Aristotelian Universe, since Aristotle ... to the geocentric model of the universe ...

The answer took a while for astronomers to figure out, leading to a debate between what is known as the geocentric (Earth-centered) model and the ... the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy ...