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Originally Posted by tracer
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Originally Posted by Emspak
Ptolemy was a scientist, and he was working with available data at the time.
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However, Aristotle was clearly off his rocker. Perfectly hard crystalline spheres carrying the planets around the Earth in uniform circular motion? The moon being blemish-free? What were you smoking when you wrote that, Aristotle?! |
Agreed. Aristotle seems to have based his celestial mechanics (and other things) on religious principles rather than observation. Maybe he can be promoted to a woo-woo saint--he had a lot of the characteristics.