Re: [Phys-l] Galileo was wrong

["Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

My understanding is that Brahe was actually trying to find good data that would verify the Ptolemaic system (or more accurately his and/or latter day versions of that system.)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
> bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of John Clement
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:53 PM
> To: 'Forum for Physics Educators'
> Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Galileo was wrong
>
> I think this was an ambiguous antecedent.  Kepler was outside, but
> Galileo
> inside.  As I understood Brahe actually was doing his observations with
> the
> support of the Pope, but Kepler ran off with his notebooks after Brahe's
> death.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > I find it hard to think of Galileo as being outside the influence of
> > the Catholic Church.  He seems like a pretty go insider to me.
> >
> > He needed some sort of circular inertia to explain the continue
> > motion of the planets.  Just a guess, perhaps he appealed to the
> > ideal circular motion as why they continued.
>
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