2002
DOI: 10.1162/106361402321147531
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Constructing Copernicus

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“…Ptolemy's geocentric model predicted the angular locations of planets, but Kopernikus' heliocentric model was more elegant, simple, and enabled many productive insights into astronomy (Barker, 2002;Eyster, 2021).…”
Section: Scientis Ts Are Part Of the Ne T Work Of Rel Ati On S: G Old...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ptolemy's geocentric model predicted the angular locations of planets, but Kopernikus' heliocentric model was more elegant, simple, and enabled many productive insights into astronomy (Barker, 2002;Eyster, 2021).…”
Section: Scientis Ts Are Part Of the Ne T Work Of Rel Ati On S: G Old...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rheticus, at least in 1540, advocated both Copernicus's mathematical models and his cosmology. Reinhold was the leader of a wider movement that rejected sun centered cosmology but accepted Copernicus' mathematical models in preference to Ptolemy's (Barker 2002(Barker , 2009). …”
Section: The Copernican Revolution and Conceptual Revolutionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, they had appeared in Latin astronomy textbooks throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, especially commentaries on Peurbach‘s Theoricae novae planetarum . But the significance of these texts had been eclipsed by the acceptance of Copernicanism in a form that ultimately eliminated celestial orbs (Barker, 2002) and, in the twentieth century, by the general acceptance of a historiographical thesis originating in the work of Pierre Duhem (Duhem 1908; 1969). Duhem had proposed that the astronomical tradition from the Greeks forward encompassed two opposing views on the status of astronomical models: the view that they were at best fictions, and the view that they were attempts to describe the real nature of astronomical bodies.…”
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confidence: 99%