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PTOLEMY'S SYSTEM

Specialty Definition: PTOLEMY'S SYSTEM

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Space

The explanation given by ancient Greek astronomers to the motion of planets around the sky, described in a book by the Greek Ptolemy, around 150 AD. It regarded Earth as the center of the universe and assumed the motion of planets was a superposition of circular motions (see epicycles). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PTOLEMY'S SYSTEM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-e-e-l-m-m-o-p-s-s-s-t-t-y-y"

-4 letters: symptomless.

-5 letters: typestyles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PTOLEMY'S SYSTEM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 54 4F 4C 45 4D 59 27 53      53 59 53 54 45 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010100 01001111 01001100 01000101 01001101 01011001 00100111 01010011 00100000 01010011 01011001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#84 &#79 &#76 &#69 &#77 &#89 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#83 &#89 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0054 004F 004C 0045 004D 0059 0027 0053      0053 0059 0053 0054 0045 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

505449463947599532535953543947

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1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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