ASTR 1101 Chapter : CW11
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You shouldn"t say it was wrong, but it was not favored by the evidence available at the time. I give full credit for any answer from 1% to 50%. ] [the copernican idea was plausible, but had no particular evidence in its. [the phases of venus have already disproven the ptolemaic model, but this. Stars don"t appear to move (but maybe they"re very far) Phase of venus (venus goes around the sun) does not mean that copernicus is correct. But it was the only reasonable idea around. I think that what is going on is that the common perception of a highly confident result is taken to be 90% or 95% or 99%, instead of the real odds. {it is these popular misperceptions of odds that supports the professional gambling industry. } Rather, with parallax and aberration, the copernican idea was well proven. Even back in 1850, the heliocentric model was far past the bet-your-life level {~99. 99%}.