Ancient Roman AstronomyAncient Roman Astronomy was an important contribution because it helped people accept and understand ideas about the universe and Roman Astronomers helped mapped out many stars. Ancient astronomer Ptolemy lived in Alexandria, Egypt where he mapped out over 1,000 stars and he studied the motion planets and stars. This was important because it help people accept his new ideas even though the were not completely true and his studies about the motion of the planets and stars helped create rules explaining their movements. As a result of him mapping out the stars people were able to create maps and give directions easily. Ancient Roman Astronomy was an extremely important contributions for its new ideas about the universe and for mapping out many stars.
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