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Talk:Geocentric theory (view source)
Revision as of 23:57, November 3, 2008
, 23:57, November 3, 2008→Jupiter moons: venture into philosophy, history of astronomy, and other peripheral topics
:#The post-bear-eye era: Galileos observations of the Jupiter moons posed a problem for the ''philosophy'' of ''Plato'' and ''Aristotle'', the observation of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlnlbZHP-jk phases of Venus] a problem for the ''Ptolemaic'' system.
:#The post-bear-eye era: Galileos observations of the Jupiter moons posed a problem for the ''philosophy'' of ''Plato'' and ''Aristotle'', the observation of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlnlbZHP-jk phases of Venus] a problem for the ''Ptolemaic'' system.
:--[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 17:50, 3 November 2008 (EST)
:--[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 17:50, 3 November 2008 (EST)
:: It sounds to me like you want to venture into philosophy, history of astronomy, and other peripheral topics. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 18:57, 3 November 2008 (EST)
I'm a little confused about what this discussion is about. Modern astronomy clearly takes an earth-centered view when describing familiar phenomena such as [[sunrise]] and [[sunset]] (which we know are caused by the earth's rotation - not by a sun god ascending and descending the sky in a fiery chariot; and the "motion" of the sun against the background of the "fixed stars" is explained by the earth's annual revolution around the (relatively) immobile sun.
I'm a little confused about what this discussion is about. Modern astronomy clearly takes an earth-centered view when describing familiar phenomena such as [[sunrise]] and [[sunset]] (which we know are caused by the earth's rotation - not by a sun god ascending and descending the sky in a fiery chariot; and the "motion" of the sun against the background of the "fixed stars" is explained by the earth's annual revolution around the (relatively) immobile sun.