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Ptolemy in The Great Astronomer Series by Sir Robert S. Ball:

Before Copernicus turned the heavens inside out, and long before Galileo aimed his telescope at the stars, one man held the universe in the palm of his hand. For fourteen centuries, the name Ptolemy was synonymous with truth about the cosmos. His Almagest became scripture for the skies, weaving circles upon circles in a vision so elegant—and so persuasive—that it bound the human imagination for sixty generations.

Yet within those concentric orbits lay both brilliance and blind spot: a genius who proved the Earth a sphere suspended in space, but who kept it stubbornly fixed at the center of creation. To read Ptolemy is to watch human intellect straining at the limits of observation and reason, dazzling in its geometry, audacious in its logic, and flawed in ways that shaped history itself.

Sir Robert Ball brings Ptolemy’s towering intellect to life, showing how one man’s system—so wrong, yet so irresistible—could dominate the night sky for over a millennium, until the slow grind of discovery broke its spell.

This is the story of astronomy’s first empire of thought—built on perfect circles, crowned with universal authority, and destined, like all empires, to fall.