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Copernican Revolution
From
: Larry Smith <
Larry.Smith@SNOW.EDU
>
Date
: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 13:14:34 -0700
Historical question: I thought Copernicus' heliocentric model was not
initially any more accurate than Ptolemy's. Didn't he even have to have a
few epicycles himself? Until Kepler? (See
<
http://www.physics.gmu.edu/classinfo/astr103/CourseNotes/ECText/ch02_txt.ht
m#2.2.1.>.)
Not according to NPR's "Math Guy" this morning:
<
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20000219.wesat.04.ram
>.
Larry
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