Comment by grey-area
13 hours ago
I think incomplete would be a better description; it was roughly right for our solar system and far more right than thinking everything revolved around the earth.
13 hours ago
I think incomplete would be a better description; it was roughly right for our solar system and far more right than thinking everything revolved around the earth.
I think that is a reasonable take with regard to Copernicus - and however you look at it he made a huge advance on any previous model.
Geocentric models may look silly with the benefit of hindsight, but Galileo’s claim that the Copernican model was proven was entirely unwarranted at the time. The evidence did not exist until much later.