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

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 February 2015 04:13:10PM 0 points [-]

According to Koestler (The Sleepwalkers) Copernicus just hated Ptolemy's "eccentrics" because a good Platonist God does not do ugly assymetrical work like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle