[unholiness]

Did you mean Copernicus, with his heliocentric theory, rather than Ptolemy, whose theory was geocentric?

[delichon]

Probably true. I think there's a case for Ptolemy being an originator of separating data from intuition, even if his planetary model didn't reflect it. Moving our intuition away from the center of the universe. By recording measurements and proposing a falsifiable model he laid a foundation for Copernicus, Kepler, Newton ...