The Real Story Of Gravity
Ironically, it was Aristarchus of Samos (310BC -230 BC), who lived after Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), who was the first person in recorded history to come up with the idea of a heliocentric system, centuries before the Polish canon, physician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) wrote and posthumously published his seminal treatise, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). The reason why the Ptolemaic (geocentric) view of the cosmos, with its epicycles, lasted so long is because it did and does work! Today, an armillary sphere or an astrolabe (a two-dimensional version of an armillary sphere) both based on the Ptolemaic system, work just as well now as they did then. read more
The Real Story Of Gravity
Ironically, it was Aristarchus of Samos (310BC -230 BC), who lived after Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), who was the first person in recorded history to come up with the idea of a heliocentric ...
Sun 7 Feb 10 from Scientific Blogging
The Real History Of Gravity
Ironically, it was Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BC) who lived after Aristotle, who was the first person in recorded history to come up with the idea of a heliocentric system, centuries before ...
Sun 7 Feb 10 from Scientific Blogging
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