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What was the main difference between Copernicus' model and Kepler's model?
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- Planets appear to reverse motions at times.
- Ptolemy explained motions in terms of orbits (epicycles) carried on a larger orbit (deferent).
- Epicycle deferent ratios were very close to modern values of planet/earth orbit ratios. System worked very well.
- Contrary to popular myths, Ptolemy's system was not overly cumbersome, and it accounted for subtleties like the uneven motion of the Sun
- It is not Ptolemy's fault he did such a good job that it took 1500 years to improve on him!
- System began to seem cumbersome and inelegant.
- System inaccurate. Alfonsine tables out of date by 1500.
- Epicycle motions for Venus and Mercury opposite other planets.
- Epicycle for Sun's motion appeared in schemes for all other planets.
- References to now-lost ideas of Aristarchus of Samos
- Copernicus replaced epicycles with orbital motion of Earth.
- Less accurate than Ptolemaic system but conceptually simpler.
- Published as De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) 1542.
- Little immediate hostility. Earlier speculations on moving earth had been decreed heretical, hence moving earth idea could be lightly dismissed.
- One of most vigorous critics was Martin Luther.
- One of the last of the "scientific astrologers."
- Attempted to explain spacing of planet orbits by reference to Platonic solids.
- Kepler was reluctant to abandon perfectly circular motion (but despite his mystic tendencies, he did when the evidence required it).
- Kepler found many numerological relationships among the planets, of which "Kepler's Laws" are the three that have proven to have a physical basis.
- Kepler's concept of the Sun as center of solar system may have had a mystical basis.
- Copernican theory based on same observational data as Ptolemaic, hence no more accurate.
- Kepler turned to Brahe, who had the most advanced observational data.
- Orbits are elliptical, Sun at one focus, nothing at other.
- Radius vector sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
- Square of period proportional to cube of distance.
- Galileo and Kepler corresponded.
- Galileo defended Copernican astronomy but never wrote about Kepler's model.
- Galileo may have been repelled by Kepler's mysticism.
- Moral: even the best and most innovative workers can sometimes fail to recognize a major advance.
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