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How One of Science's Biggest Errors Persisted for 1,500 Years
Central among the critiques that Regiomontanus included in the guide: Ptolemy was wrong about the Moon. In 1491, a university student named Nicolaus Copernicus read a copy of the Epitome of the ...
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Celestial Journey: Talks, Rare Book Exhibit, and Performance interpret The Universe
At the same time, when star-gazers Claudius Ptolemy (AD c100-170), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) and Nicolaus Copernicus (1571 – 1630) made their own discoveries, people’s collective ...
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Changing ideas about the Solar System
Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of ... to get very complex in order to keep the Earth at the centre. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) is generally credited with changing the model of ...