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Re: A rotating Earth
From
: "John S. Denker" <
jsd@MONMOUTH.COM
>
Date
: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:06:13 -0500
At 01:13 PM 2/3/00 -0800, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
>
> I'm particularly curious about what Brahe
>thought about all of this since his model sits right on the cusp of the
>transition to the sun-centered view. Did his Earth rotate?
Certainly Copernicus proposed in 1543 daily rotation as well as yearly
orbit. Ref:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html
IMHO that's the modern cusp. Brahe didn't come onto the scene until 20+
years later.
Perhaps more to the point, Aristarchus went for the "twofer" as well. Ref:
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aristarchus.html
----
>What does anyone out there know about this stuff? Are there any good
>references?
A list of relevant-sounding titles can be found in
http://carnap.umd.edu/chps/reading_list/single_list.html
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