- 11 Jan 2016 04:50
#14640867
As noemon is alluding to, the Ptolemaic model, which "wrong", had more predictive power than the "correct" Copernican heliocentric model. Kepler had to build in a lot of the Ptolemaic insights about orbital speeds, eccentric orbits, etc to improve the Copernican model.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly.
His name was spessul olymmian
I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly.
His name was spessul olymmian