Annotated Source #14

Ptolemy, Claudius. Ptolemy's Almagest. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984. Print.

• In keeping with my desire to get as much background information on the different universe systems, I thought it best to read up on the Ptolemaic universe system from Ptolemy himself. This will help me to understand more fully the system that Copernicus shut down with his heliocentric theory, and what the implications of that new discovery would have been. It will also help me understand the Renaissance understanding of the cosmos better, both in terms of showing me what they held on to from Ptolemy, and what they discarded from his theory, if anything.