He developed a system for predicting planetary positions that remained in use for some 1,500 years.
A)Tycho Brahe
B)Copernicus
C)Kepler
D)Galileo
E)Ptolemy

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Ptolemy developed the geocentric model of the universe and created a system for predicting planetary positions that remained in use for over a millennium. His system relied on the use of epicycles and deferents to explain the observed motion of the planets. Ptolemy's work was later built upon by Islamic astronomers and eventually translated into Latin and used by European astronomers.

He Developed a System for Predicting Planetary Positions That Remained