
Episode 2 Preview | Finding the Center
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Episode two charts our efforts to give the earth shape and place in the cosmos.
Episode two of this landmark series delves further into our ancient understanding of the skies above. After exploring the mysterious creatures living at the edge of the world, we follow the story of our earth as it takes shape and a place in the cosmos in the minds of great astronomers and scientists including Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo.

Episode 2 Preview | Finding the Center
Preview: Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Episode two of this landmark series delves further into our ancient understanding of the skies above. After exploring the mysterious creatures living at the edge of the world, we follow the story of our earth as it takes shape and a place in the cosmos in the minds of great astronomers and scientists including Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo.
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Explore Ptolemy's earth-centered model of the cosmos. (1m 58s)
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