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Events in 150 2

• 150 – 250 Nagarjuna The Philosopher of Emptiness Founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhism; argued for the "emptiness" (Sunyata) of all things.
• 150 Ptolemy — Almagest The geocentric model that dominated for 1,400 years Around 150 AD, Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria published the Almagest, a comprehensive mathematical treatment of the motions of the Sun, Moon, and five known planets using a geocentric (Earth-centred) model. Despite being fundamentally wrong, the Almagest's predictive accuracy was extraordinary and it remained the authoritative astronomical text in Europe and the Islamic world until Copernicus in 1543. Understanding what it got wrong was as important as understanding what it got right.