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People spent centuries assuming that orbits (whether helio- or geo-centric) were circular, because it was more elegant. They were wrong!
by dm_throwaway 12y ago
People spent centuries assuming that orbits (whether helio- or geo-centric) were circular, because it was more elegant. They were wrong!
- astrobe_ 12y agoI don't think so. Assuming circular orbits is certainly more "almost right" than "wrong" to me. By the way, Copernicus' circular heliocentric model was refined a few decades (not centuries) later by Kepler with elliptic orbits.