Maybe Copernicus isn’t coming
The Endeavour 2024-11-05
Summary:
Before Copernicus promoted the heliocentric model of the solar system, astronomers added epicycle on top of epicycle, creating ever more complex models of the solar system. The term epicycle is often used derisively to mean something ad hoc and unnecessarily complex. Copernicus’ model was simpler, but it was less accurate. The increasingly complex models before […]
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