DeCicco Family Markets is a local family-run grocery chain offering fresh produce, restaurant quality meats, and breads and confections baked daily from scratch. Also available are gluten free, salt free, and sugar free items; foods low in fat and carbohydrates; and organic and natural produce, meats, and dairy products. DeCiccoâs also offers catering services with a wide variety of platters.
The geocentric model, also known as the Ptolemaic system, is a theory that was developed by philosophers in Ancient Greece and was named after the philosopher Claudius Ptolemy who lived circa 90 to 168 A.D. It was developed to explain how the planets, the Sun, and even the stars orbit around the Earth. The geocentric theory has existed even before Ptolemy though. This model has been described in various early Greek manuscripts, and as early as the 4th century B.C.
While a moving Earth was proposed at least from the 4th century BC in Pythagoreanism, and a fully developed heliocentric model was developed by Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BC, these ideas were not successful in replacing the view of a static spherical Earth, and from the 2nd century AD the predominant model, which would be inherited by medieval astronomy, was the geocentric model described in Ptolemy's Almagest.