The obvious one nobody’s mentioned: the motion of the stars and planets. Supposedly caused by Angels pushing objects in epicycles around the earth, at least until Newton came along.
It predicted perfect circles, no?
Was the problem with the theory, or with the scientists who held onto it as necessary epicycles accumulated?
Thats a rather glib summary of the Copernican Revolution.
The obvious one nobody’s mentioned: the motion of the stars and planets. Supposedly caused by Angels pushing objects in epicycles around the earth, at least until Newton came along.
It predicted perfect circles, no?
Was the problem with the theory, or with the scientists who held onto it as necessary epicycles accumulated?
Thats a rather glib summary of the Copernican Revolution.