Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
> This is anachronistic no? Geocentrism was
> inherited from the ancient world and "empirical
> facts" as they relate to astronomy were of little
> concern in the middle ages. You are talking more
> about the early modern world.
>
>
No. Not really. And empirical facts were plenty important. After all the
astronomical theories of the middle ages could account for the facts as
well as the heliocentric theory. Geocentrism just had to be a little
more complicated in order to account for the facts.
Joanna