Napoleon stole the Roman Inquisition archives and investigated the Galileo case
Napoleon was openly in conflict with the pope, and wanted to discredit him to get a foothold on the French Catholic majority.
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Napoleon was openly in conflict with the pope, and wanted to discredit him to get a foothold on the French Catholic majority.
This article shatters a number of myths about the development of Astronomy. It was pretty much unknown to me until recently that Kepler's ellipses also fitted a Geocentric model made by Riccioli, for example.
Napoleon was openly in conflict with the pope, and wanted to discredit him to get a foothold on the French Catholic majority.
Keep in mind that any ellipse can be modelled by 2 epicycles.
Ellipses were a tighter constraint on available epicycle models.
Kepler's model actually involved hyperbola for comets, which cannot be explained by epicycles.
The Copernican system actually had more epicycles than the Ptolemaic one.
But yes, you could keep adding epicycles to the Ptolemaic system and change parameters to match the accuracy even of today's planetary movements.
But epicycles couldn't explain hyperbolic movements of objects that only fly into the solar system once.
This article shatters a number of myths about the development of Astronomy. It was pretty much unknown to me until recently that Kepler's ellipses also fitted a Geocentric model made by Riccioli, for example.