Development of the Heliocentric World View

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History

 

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Darrell W

 

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May 28, 2013

 

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What Copernicus came up with was a heliocentric world view with the Sun in the center of the universe with eight orbits and the stars fixed on the eighth orbit. This new heliocentric theory, however, was as complicated as the Ptolemaic system; Copernicus still used the circular orbits and perfect heavenly spheres that Ptolemy used and the new theory still did not match mathematically with observations...
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Kepler based his work mostly on Brahe's observations and many historians argue that without Brahe, Kepler would not have com up with his theories. Kepler rejected the geocentric theory but knew that Copernicus was wrong because Brahe's observations never matched mathematically with Copernicus' model...
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