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Think flat world, and the plethora of adjustments that astronomers introduced to it when observations conflicted with theory. As some point you have to throw th
by ddebernardy 10y ago
Think flat world, and the plethora of adjustments that astronomers introduced to it when observations conflicted with theory. As some point you have to throw the towel and come up with a completely different explanation of whatever you're observing.
- jacobolus 10y agoMaybe you meant the geocentric model of the cosmos developed by Apollonius, Hipparchus, and Ptolemy, full of epicycles and so on? (As contrasted with the heliocentric “Copernican” model.) Every serious astronomer in the West (indeed, every educated person) has known that the earth is round for about 2500 years. The idea that medieval Europeans believed in a flat Earth is largely a modern myth. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth