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Very interesting. Wouldn't such reasoning serve as evidence for the heliocentric model, which I thought was known as a theory but not generally accepted at the
by tomtomtom777 6y ago
Very interesting. Wouldn't such reasoning serve as evidence for the heliocentric model, which I thought was known as a theory but not generally accepted at the time of Pythagoras?
- dr_dshiv 6y agoAristotle makes fun of the Pythagorean proposal that there might be a counter-earth orbiting on the other side of the sun, so it can never be seen. But if you think about it, that's only possible in a heliocentic worldview. Coperinicus, at least, believed that the Pythagoreans believed in heliocentrism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/228080?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/228080?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_...