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by dr_dshiv 1566 days ago
Nothing. His model actually fit the data worse than epicycles. He just thought it was a more sensible approach that matched the Pythagorean opinion.

It wasn’t until Kepler that a geocentric model involving ellipses actually was more predictive.

Might be worth returning to the Pythagorean interpretation (which Bohr discussed): All is number. The world is made of math, not stuff.

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> It wasn’t until Kepler that a geocentric model involving ellipses actually was more predictive.

You mean heliocentric?

Thanks, my bad.