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The Book Nobody Reads and the reason why.
It is unfortunate that people take enormous satisfaction from
presenting the Copernican insight in its basest form,that the Earth moves around the Sun while the Ptolemaic astronomers are assigned the ignomious condition of believing the universe rotated around the Earth.In demeaning the Ptolemaic astronomers to a condition that even they would have been embarrassed to hold,it also diminishes the dramatic difference which Copernicus introduced by placing the Earth's orbit between Venus and Mars in accounting for so much. While the Earth overtaking the slower moving outer planets was the main argument for an orbitally moving Earth as resolving observed planetary heliocentric motion directly,other ones are just as subtle and permit readers to see how these great men thought. The representation on page 86 demonstrates how the annual orbital motion of Mars can be calculated against the Earth's annual motion and from there to the periodic times argument for heliocentricity by Kepler.It is really rewarding for people who wish to use their intuitive faculties and heliocentric astronomy,when not geometric is entirely about intuitive judgements. http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/pdf/POSC_13_1_74_0.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*----- Epitome Of Copernican Astronomy by JOHANNES KEPLER Finally by what arguments do you prove that the centre of the Sun which is at the midpoint of the planetary spheres and bears their whole system - does not revolve in some annual movement,as Brahe wishes,but in accordance with Copernicus sticks immobile in one place,while the centre of the Earth revolves in an annual movement. Argument 10 " The 10th argument,taken from the periodic times, is as follows; the apparent movement of the Sun has 365 days which is the mean measure between Venus' period of 225 days and Mars' period of 687 days.Therefore does not the nature of things shout out loud that the circuits in which those 365 days are taken up has a mean position between the circuits of Mars and Venus around the Sun and thus this is not the circuit of the Sun around the Earth -for none of the primary planets has its orbit arranged around the Earth,as Brahe admits,but the circuit of the Earth around the resting Sun,just as the other planets,namely Mars and Venus,complete their own periods by running around the Sun." Johannes Kepler --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do not know why it happens that an inferior and fraudulent view is adhered to when the actual intuitive view is an incredible and satisfying experience.I understand that the 17th century guy is almost a national heritage but there are others of the same heritage who recognised the wasteland created by that man's agenda and fought tooth and nail to show where the real English Spirit exists *.More than anything I would have wished that the matter be corrected by a people and I still wish it so. * http://www.princeton.edu/~his291/Newton.html |
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The Book Nobody Reads and the reason why.
In article . com,
"oriel36" wrote: The great scientist can explain his position in two paragraphs of six sentences each. Your excessive verbiage is proof enough of this. |
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The Book Nobody Reads and the reason why.
a1pha-0mega wrote: In article . com, "oriel36" wrote: The great scientist can explain his position in two paragraphs of six sentences each. Your excessive verbiage is proof enough of this. It may happen that optical astronomers may turn a telescope back at our home planet to learn about heliocentric astronomy for the first time and discover the wealth of information contained in the axial /orbital motions and orientations. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/pla..._earthrise.jpg Kepler was an astronomer and the language of astronomy is and always will be geometry.I recognise how humanity is great and enjoy the achievements I see day after day across the vast sprawl of human endeavor but I see none here.I see only optical astronomers content with making objects appear bigger and theorists trying to make themselves bigger than the material and making a nuisance of themselves. |
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