NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sun Cross, Pythagoras, Intellectual Freedom
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Pythagorus: the geocentrists prevailed over the truth (theyre wrong) the popularity of plato and. Aristotle led to the widespread belief in the geocentric model: geocentrists: ppeaahp, heliocentrist: ppha, the quote. So when the wheel is high above the earth, its summer time and vice versa: eclipses occur bc the moon also resides on a wheel that rotates around the earth. While on the south side, the constellations would be setting downwards as eventually setting below the horizon as you walked further north. His result was 45k and the real is 40k. Apollonius: aristotles principles have been well established and is seen as the basis of astrology, apollonius upgraded eudoxus" planetary model to the epicycle model (accepted for over. 1500 years: he came up w/ a new way of moving the planets that explained their motions, predicted their paths, and required less crystal orbs.