Weren't the ancients nigh-obsessive in attention to detail in their astronomy?
--- Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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
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