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Proper principles.
Who wrote this precious commentary -
".... although they have extracted from them the apparent motions, with numerical agreement, nevertheless . . . . They are just like someone including in a picture hands, feet, head, and other limbs from different places, well painted indeed, but not modeled from the same body, and not in the least matching each other, so that a monster would be produced from them rather than a man. Thus in the process of their demonstrations, which they call their system, they are found either to have missed out something essential, or to have brought in something inappropriate and wholly irrelevant, which would not have happened to them if they had followed proper principles. For if the hypotheses which they assumed had not been fallacies, everything which follows from them could be independently verified." |
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wrote: Who wrote this precious commentary - ".... although they have extracted from them the apparent motions, with numerical agreement, nevertheless . . . . They are just like someone including in a picture hands, feet, head, and other limbs from different places, well painted indeed, but not modeled from the same body, and not in the least matching each other, so that a monster would be produced from them rather than a man. Thus in the process of their demonstrations, which they call their system, they are found either to have missed out something essential, or to have brought in something inappropriate and wholly irrelevant, which would not have happened to them if they had followed proper principles. For if the hypotheses which they assumed had not been fallacies, everything which follows from them could be independently verified." Copernicus - De Revolutionibus 1543 http://vms.cc.wmich.edu/~mcgrew/chain.htm Instead of being excited for the astronomical relevence of the upcoming Equinox for the first time in history you call me troll and refuse to see that this insight is an astronomical extension of Copernicus and Kepler while your cataloguing tradition owes its inferior nature to Flamsteed and Maskelyne.Even I allow that the search for terrestial longitudes from celestial references was a noble pursuit but not at the cost of fudging exquisite astronomical principles. The error was made by English cataloguers is attributing an 'isochronical proof' to the revolution of the Earth through 360 degrees and it is only fitting that contemporaries from your nation should correct the error with transparency and common sense,it is the least you can do. Along with common sense there is also common decency and particularly where educating children is concerned,currently you are filling them full of lies in order to demonstrate that Newton inherited the astronomical heritage from Kepler when the damage that man wrought is incredible to the eyes of an astronomer. As a Christian I inherit the great 'Behold' from Copernicus just as astronomers of his time did but then again this is just another facet of my faith. "I sincerely cherish Ptolemy and his followers equally with my teacher, since I have ever in mind and memory that sacred precept of Aristotle: "We must esteem both parties but follow the more accurate." And yet somehow I feel more inclined to the hypotheses of my teacher. This is so perhaps partly because I am persuaded that now at last I have a more accurate understanding of the delightful maxim which on account of its weightiness and truth is attributed to Plato: "God ever geometrizes"; but partly because in my teacher's revival of astronomy I see, as the saying is, with both eyes and as though a fog had lifted and the sky were now clear, the force of that wise statement of Socrates in the Phaedrus: "If I think any other man is able to see things that can naturally be collected into one and divided into many, him I follow after and 'walk in his footsteps as if he were a god.'" 1540, Narratio Prima Rheticus Cataloguers live in an empirical fog,come dawn at the Equinox as the Earth rotates out of its orbital shadow they stand a chance to become astronomers for the first time. |
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