{"id":505,"date":"2005-07-28T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T20:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=505"},"modified":"2005-07-28T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T20:56:50","slug":"on-the-ptolemaic-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"On the Ptolemaic System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a week ago, perhaps a little more, that I an idea struck: tell a story set in a universe where the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ptolemaic_system\">Ptolemaic system<\/a> were true, where Earth was the center of the universe around which everything&#8211;moon, sun, planets, stars&#8211;revolved.  A silly idea, true.<\/p>\n<p>I realized, though, that I really didn&#8217;t know quite how the system worked.  <a href=\"http:\/\/csep10.phys.utk.edu\/astr161\/lect\/retrograde\/aristotle.html\">Some online articles have been helpful<\/a>, but I needed more.  Recently several books have been recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Music of the spheres, indeed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see where this goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a week ago, perhaps a little more, that I an idea struck: tell a story set in a universe where the Ptolemaic system were true, where Earth was the center of the universe around which everything&#8211;moon, sun, planets, stars&#8211;revolved. A silly idea, true. I realized, though, that I really didn&#8217;t know quite how<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=505\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Ptolemaic System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,75],"tags":[981],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-writing","tag-ptolemaic-system","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}