Revisions of #5792
Contributors: Claudius Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, Giovanni Battista Riccioli
The Earth stands still at the center of the universe. The Moon, the Sun, and the planets circle it.
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The Earth stands still at the center of the universe. The Moon, the Sun, and the planets circle it.
The Earth stands still at the center. The Moon and the Sun circle it, and the other planets circle the Sun. This explains everything Copernicus’s system does without moving the Earth.
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The Earth stands still at the center. The Moon and the Sun circle it, and the other planets circle the Sun. This explains everything Copernicus’s system does without moving the Earth.
The Earth stands still at the center. The Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn roughly circle it, and Mercury, Venus, and Mars go around the Sun on Kepler’s ellipses, so they fit Tycho’s measurements.