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Ernest
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« on: October 07, 2014, 12:25:08 PM » |
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Probably the greatest impediment to an early adoption of heliocentrism was that it required the stars to be much farther away than they were thought to be because of the lack of any observable stellar parallax. Also, heliocentrism requires that there be multiple centers of rotation because Luna still orbits Terra, even if everything else in our planetary system orbits Sol. It wasn't until the discovery of the Galilean moons of Jupiter that the philosophically desirable concept of a single center of celestial motion had to be abandoned in favor of systems with multiple systems. Even so, the Tychonic geo-heliocentric system remained popular for a while. In that system, Sol and Luna revolve around Terra while the planets revolve around Sol. It wasn't really until Kepler with his simple elliptical orbits presented a new way of achieving the desired simplicity that heliocentrism became dominant, and it took Newton to make it unassailable.
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