Status of the Copernican theory before Kepler, Galileo, and Newton
作者:
Douglas R. Martin,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 52,
issue 11
页码: 982-986
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1119/1.13911
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
关键词: ASTRONOMY;HISTORY;SOLAR SYSTEM
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The most obvious evidence supporting the Copernican theory emerged during a period of 300 years following the publication ofDeRevolutionibusby Copernicus in 1543. In this paper a comparison is made between the geo‐centric and helio‐centric theories on the basis of astronomical merit and observational evidence available in 1543. The Copernican theory is not superior on the basis of calculational accuracy, but does possess greater unity and is simpler in the sense thatad‐hocassumptions required by the geo‐centric theory are not required by the Copernican theory. The Copernican theory, however, requires anad‐hocassertion about the size of the universe in order to explain the absence of observed stellar parallax.
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