Throughout the Middle Ages,the most important classical authorities on cosmology were _________ and _________.
A) Plato; Aristotle
B) Plato; Ptolemy
C) Aristotle; Galen
D) Aristotle; Ptolemy
E) Galen; Ptolemy

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Aristotle and Ptolemy were the two most important classical authorities on cosmology during the Middle Ages. Plato's ideas were also influential, but he did not write extensively on cosmology like Aristotle and Ptolemy did. Galen was an important authority on medicine but not on cosmology.

Throughout the Middle Ages,the Most Important Classical Authorities on Cosmology