- 10 Nov 2015 14:56
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Exactly. The Copernican model was actually ignored for about a century after his death, because it was so unconvincing. The Church didn't condemn it until the early 17th century, because people like Galileo were only then starting to take it seriously. Before the time of Galileo, the Copernican model was regarded as an intellectually flimsy hypothesis. It was in fact only with the work of Galileo and Newton in the 17th century that the Copernican model became at all plausible, and was universally accepted only with the publication of Newton's Principia Mathematica. Newton was able to rigorously answer all of the whys and wherefores of the heliocentric system.
I mean seriously, anyone of you who doesn't believe that needs to look at the original Copernican model, the modern understanding and Copernicus has only one similarity i.e. Earth revolves around Sun and nothing else at all. No Hows, Whys are answered at all.
Exactly. The Copernican model was actually ignored for about a century after his death, because it was so unconvincing. The Church didn't condemn it until the early 17th century, because people like Galileo were only then starting to take it seriously. Before the time of Galileo, the Copernican model was regarded as an intellectually flimsy hypothesis. It was in fact only with the work of Galileo and Newton in the 17th century that the Copernican model became at all plausible, and was universally accepted only with the publication of Newton's Principia Mathematica. Newton was able to rigorously answer all of the whys and wherefores of the heliocentric system.
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