How did the Renaissance rediscovery of the work of Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy help start the Scientific Revolution?

Ptolemy's system no longer seemed to work with what scientists were observing, and scientists began to look for other theories.
Scientists were forbidden to read Ptolemy.
Scientists wanted to prove that Ptolemy's theory of the universe was correct.
Scientists discovered new writing by Ptolemy.

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How did the Renaissance rediscovery of the work of Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy help start the Scientific Revolution?

Ptolemy's system no longer seemed to work with what scientists were observing, and scientists began to look for other theories.
Scientists were forbidden to read Ptolemy.
Scientists wanted to prove that Ptolemy's theory of the universe was correct.
Scientists discovered new writing by Ptolemy.

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Ptolemy's system no longer seemed to work with what scientists were observing, and scientists began to look for other theories.

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david8644 david8644 · Answer 2 · 2019-04-03T19:38:42+02:00

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Ptolemy's system no longer seemed to work with what scientists were observing, and scientists began to look for other theories.

When Copernicus challenged the geocentric model of Ptolemy, the most accepted to his time, which stated that everything in the universe was orbitating around the Earth, and formulated the Heliocentric model that stated that the univers orbitaded around the sun, and with this took the Earth from the center of the Universe, everything was now questionable, this led to a challenging of all the current knowledge and the initiation of the Scientific Revolution.