Replying to LO27654 --
At de Lange wrote on a learning topic worth a much richer picture:
> Copernicus did not overthrow with his heliocentric theory the Ptolemaic
> (geocentric) theory of astronomy. In fact, he died embittered because
> nobody seemed to accept his arguments that the heliocentric theory gave
> simpler accounts of planatery motion than the geocentric theory. Some
> sixty years later Kepler followed in his foot steps and suffered the same
> reactions, despite having formulated his three laws of planetary motions.
> Galileo afterwards also had the same experiences. Only some 150 years
> after Copernicus when Isaac Newton followed the same footsteps, combining
> Kepler's laws in his law of gravitation, the intelectual world was finally
> prepared to overthrow the Ptolemaic system.
Such a rich picture has been given by Arthur Koestler in a book with the
very telling title The Sleepwalkers.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--KiWiDressler@t-online.de (Winfried und Kirstin Dressler)
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