He also did a pretty damned good job of calculating the size of the earth!
Those old guys were *smart*... -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:49 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Galileo Was Wrong? > > Just for the record, Aristarchus of Samos outlined a > heliocentric model of the universe 1700 years before Copernicus. > > Chris > -- > > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada > > > > 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 > [email protected] > http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > > ========================== > > > ========= > > Marc Carter wrote: > > Good points, John. > > > > It was really Copernicus who gave us the notion that you > could better explain the motions of the planets; it was > Kepler who worked out elliptical orbits (but hated them -- > circular motion required no explanation, but ellipses do), > and Newton who invented gravity to explain the elliptical orbits. > > > > Galileo gave observational evidence that there were more > than "seven heavenly bodies" in his observations of the > satellites of Jupiter. > > > > He gets the "blame" because he was the one who provided > evidence for the notion that things weren't as the Ptolemaic > system would have it. > > > > m > > > > -- > > Marc Carter, PhD > > Associate Professor and Chair > > Department of Psychology > > College of Arts & Sciences > > Baker University > > -- > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: John Kulig [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:44 PM > >> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > >> Subject: Re: [tips] Galileo Was Wrong? > >> > >> > >> Yeah, I agree! (sort of, but ...) My understanding > (haven't read the > >> original) is that Copernicus (Latinized from the Polish name > >> Kopernik) was theoretically embedded in the medieval way > of thinking > >> which was to try to fit the available data into pre-existing > >> medieval-style thinking. I believe he showed that either a geo or > >> helio-centered universe could be made consistent with > existing data. > >> Galileo deserves a tremendous amount of credit for pushing science > >> forward, but look to Kepler's three laws of planetary motion > >> (1609/1619) for a real data-driven science (Tycho Brahe's data > >> though), moving from the perfect circles of medieval thinking to > >> elliptical orbits. But in empirically derived laws, he saw a > >> different sort of perfection, mathematically, such as the > >> relationship between distance from the sun and time to > orbit (3rd law > >> I believe) ... > >> > >> ========================== > >> John W. 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