Epictetus comments on The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epictetus 18 February 2015 10:12:22PM 2 points [-]

Going by wiki, Copernicus' system had more epicycles.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 18 February 2015 11:40:56PM 1 point [-]

Whoops, you're right. It seems as though Copernicus dropped an equant at the cost of adding even more epicycles. Hardly an unambiguously preferable trade-off.