History of the planetary systems from Thales to Kepler (1906)
Dreyer, J. L. E. (John Louis Emil), 1852-1926 · Cambridge University Press · leaf 376
ne of them is to be accepted, an vero potius Ptolemaica assuniptiosit castiganda, prout a te factum est, et Copernicea ad stabilitatem Terraeconvertenda, uti etiam insinuasti tuoque sic nobis praeluxisti ingenio. Ibid,p. 20. Query, had Tycho really thought out his system before 1576? If so,why did… … The Tychonic System of the World. the same for the two systems1. As it leaves the earth at rest,the Tychonic system might serve as a stepping-stone from thePtolemaic to the Copernican system, and one might haveexpected it to have been proposed before the latter. It mayhave occurred to Copernicus in…
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