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Not whole lot more to say than what would happen if his theory on the earth's position in the solar system was a very rough version of Copernicus's theory?
Why on earth would anyone have a theory that had the massive, obviously stationary, earth move around a small ball in the sky?
Why on earth would anyone have a theory that had the massive, obviously stationary, earth move around a small ball in the sky?
The problem was that people thought that celestial bodies must move in perfect circles, which isn't actually the case. Perfect circle heliocentric and geocentric models both had problems perdicting the location of celestial bodies and relied on epicycles to explain some differences Copernicus' map had some because of the perfect circles not allowing good prediction, though it did much better at explaining several aspects of planetary motion.
Basically unless Ptolemy somehow got good enough optics to get the observational evidence of Galileo (Jupiter's moons and Venus' phases) or developed Keplar's math most people would go with their eyes. They would only go with the model if it was better at predicting the location of bodies.