"The motions of the heavenly bodies could be charted according to Ptolemy just as correctly as according to Copernicus."
— Motion

January 1, 1970

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Edwin Arthur Burtt, in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1924), Ch. 2 Copernicus and Kepler (A) The Problem of the New Astronomy