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	Tychonian system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tychonian system was an effort by Tycho Brahe to create a model of the solar system which would combine what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system.
		It can be shown through a geometric argument that the motions of the planets and the sun relative to the Earth in the Tychonian system are equivalent to the motions in the Copernican system, and the Tychonian system has the advantage of not predicting stellar parallax, which was not observable until the 19th century.
		Ultimately the Tychonian system was rejected along with the Copernican system by the observations of Brahe himself, which were used by Johannes Kepler to demonstrate that the orbits of the planets are ellipses and not circles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tychonian_system (384 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		COPERNICAN SYSTEM, systematic explanation of the movement of the planets around the sun; advanced in 1543 by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
		The Copernican system advanced the theories that the earth and the planets are all revolving in orbits around the sun, and that the earth is spinning on its north-south axis from west to east at the rate of one rotation per day.
		Publication of the Copernican system stimulated the study of astronomy and mathematics and laid the basis for the discoveries of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler and the British astronomer Sir Isaac Newton.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/space/copernicansystem.html (129 words)

	Ptolemaic system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was overthrown by the Copernican revolution after Galileo Galilei and Copernicus discovered that the planets orbited the sun.
		Unlike earlier systems (such as 'the stars move because that is the will of the gods', or the model of concentric spheres), the Ptolemaic model explained all phenomena in the sky, while holding to Plato's dictum which states that all motions in the heavens can be explained with uniform, circular motion, and obeying Aristotelian physics.
		Though there were observations made (primarily by Galileo) which called into question some of the tenets of the Ptolemaic system (such as the fact that Jupiter also has moons), it was not until the discovery of the phases of Venus by Galileo in 1610 that the Ptolemaic system became untenable in any form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemaic_system (638 words)

	Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To account for apparent anomalies to this view, such as the retrograde motion observed in many planets, a system of epicycles was used, by which a planet rotated on a small axis while also rotating on a larger axis around the Earth.
		From publication until about 1700, few astronomers were convinced by the Copernican system, though the book was relatively widely circulated (around 500 copies are known to still exist, which is a large number by the scientific standards of the time).
		Copernicanism, however, also opened a way to immanence, the view that a divine force, or a divine being, pervades all things that exist — a view that has since been developed further in modern philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copernicus (3373 words)

	Copernican system. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He retained the ancient belief that the planets move in perfect circles and therefore, like Ptolemy, he was forced to utilize epicycles to explain deviations from uniform motion (see Ptolemaic system).
		Thus, the Copernican system was technically only a slight improvement over the Ptolemaic system.
		By liberating astronomy from a geocentric viewpoint, Copernicus paved the way for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and Newton’s embracing theory of universal gravitation, which describes the force that holds the planets in their orbits.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Copernc-sy.html (208 words)

	SparkNotes: Johannes Kepler: The Sun-Centered Universe
		The Copernican system is thus heralded as a prime example of the triumph of a new, modern scientific era.
		What we now think of as the Copernican system – six planets traveling around in the sun in simple, circular orbits and no epicycles – was only made possible by Kepler's later refinements.
		Jupiter and Saturn were the outermost planets of the solar system, and the triangle was the simplest polygon.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/kepler/section3.rhtml (1133 words)

	Newton’s Second Law – Inertial Mass
		Nevertheless, the evidence or pressure was mounting to accept the heliocentric system as the “true” system of the solar system.
		He was not a Copernican but proposed a system in which the Earth was stationary and the sun revolved around the Earth, but all the planets revolved around the sun.
		His system is mathematically equivalent to Copernicus’, but not physically equivalent (there are measurable consequences of the fact that the Earth rotates on its axis).
	www-personal.umich.edu /~pberman/copernican.html (1130 words)

	Skyscript: The Copernican Revolution by David Plant
		The Sun-centred or heliocentric theory of the solar system is usually associated with the 16th century Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543).
		In the earliest Greek cosmological systems, the Earth was envisaged as a shield-like disc floating on water and surrounded by the mythical streams of Ocean.
		The literally earth-shaking implications of the Copernican revolution did not begin to emerge until the work of Galileo and Kepler at the beginning of the 17th century.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /copernicus.html (2448 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Copernican System
		Copernican System, systematic explanation of the movement of the planets around the sun; advanced in 1543 by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus...
		Ptolemaic System, in astronomy, theory of the order and action of the heavenly bodies.
		coordinate proofs, drawing lines on a coordinate system, finding coordinates on a coordinate plane, finding coordinates on a number line, finding...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Copernican_System.html (161 words)

	Chapter 5 -- SHP
		In this system, with the Earth in the center, a planet is carried in its eastward motion by a large circle, called a deferent, while at the same time the actual planet is on a smaller circle, the epicycle, revolving around a central point on the deferent.
		It is a myth to believe that the Copernican system was simpler in the sense of using fewer circles, or that the followers of Ptolemy were adding epicycles to epicycles to account for observational discrepancies.
		Copernicans believed that retrograde motion announced that the elegance of their system was true.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /~pine/book1qts/chapter5qts.html (16156 words)

	The Copernican Model: A Sun-Centered Solar System
		The Copernican system by banishing the idea that the Earth was the center of the Solar System, immediately led to a simple explanation of both the varying brightness of the planets and retrograde motion:
		The difference was that the Copernican system required many fewer epicycles than the Ptolemaic system because it moved the Sun to the center.
		We may also note that the Copernican model implicitly questions the third tenet that the objects in the sky were made of special unchanging stuff.
	csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html (863 words)

	Galileo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Galileo in 1597 wrote Kepler explaining his acceptance of the Copernican system system against the Ptolamic hypothesis." Galileo, however had to establish for himself the scientific proof of Copernican ideas.
		He observed of movable spots on the disc of the sun and inferred from them the sun's axial rotation: by analogy he confirmed the rotation of the earth on its axis.
		Galileo's public stance alarmed the Church, which was a steadfast advocate of the Ptolemaic theory "that the earth moves around the sun and that the sun stands in the center of the world without moving from east to west.".
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /scirev/SciRev_galileo.html (970 words)

	Against the New World Order: An examination of the Copernican world system
		Copernicus' model does provide explanations a few phenomena that are, in Ptolemy's system, merely arbitrary features of the world: the proximity of Venus and Mercury to the Sun, the retrograde motions of many of the planets, and the correlation of the planets' proximity to the Sun with their distance from the Earth.
		The Copernican theory offers a simple rationale for this: when the superior planets are proximate to the Sun, they are on the opposite side of the Sun from the Earth; when they are in opposition, they are on the same side of the Sun as the Earth.
		Similarly, just as the center of the planets' orbits in the Ptolemaic system is not the Earth but a point slightly distant from the Earth, the center of the world in Copernicus' model is not the Sun, but the center of the Earth's orbit, from which the Sun is slightly distant.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /~rkopp/collegepapers/ptolemy/ptolemy.html (2274 words)

	The Scientists: Nicolas Copernicus.
		Copernicus' theories might well lead men to think that they are simply part of nature and not superior to it and that ran counter to the theories of the politically powerful churchmen of the time.
		Two other Italian scientists of the time, Galileo and Bruno, embraced the Copernican theory unreservedly and as a result suffered much personal injury at the hands of the powerful church inquisitors.
		Galileo was brought forward in 1633, and, there, in front of his "betters," he was, under the threat of torture and death, forced to his knees to renounce all belief in Copernican theories, and was thereafter sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his days.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm (841 words)

	CHAPTER4
		The Copernican system was not a simple inductive generalization from either new or old observations, because both the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems were factually inadequate quantitatively in terms of predicting planetary positions.
		Hence, from an inductivist standpoint the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems were locked in an internal standoff and one is left with only external factors to understand why scientists accepted or pursued one or the other.
		According to Gingerich, referring to Kepler's "cleansing and mechanization" of the Copernican system, "For the professionals, this improvement was a forceful testimony to the efficacy of the Copernican system," and "the evidence for the new system was overwhelming." Gingerich, 1993, pp.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /~pine/Thesis/CHAPTER4.htm (10399 words)

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		Compared to the Ptolemaic system of epicycles, eccentrics and equants that are required to account for the retrogressive motions of the planets, the Copernican system might be thought to be far simpler, and Copernicus when he began his project may have envisaged something rather simpler than what he ended up with.
		It is a common misconception that the Copernican system provided greater accuracy and was empirically superior; in fact, some parts are better, some worse than the Ptolemaic system, and overall there is little to choose.
		Phases of Venus - With the use of the telescope, it is clear that the phases of Venus are as predicted by the Copernican system, not the Ptolemaic.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /sts/gregory/215/handouts/h06_rnc.doc (2431 words)

	Copernican System
		His theory gave a simple and elegant explanation of the retrograde motions of the planets (the annual motion of the Earth necessarily projected onto the motions of the planets in geocentric astronomy) and settled the order of the planets (which had been a convention in Ptolemy's work) definitively.
		In this system the elegance and harmony of the Copernican system were married to the solidity of a central and stable Earth so that Aristotelian physics could be maintained.
		During the sixteenth century the Copernican issue was not considered important by the Church and no official pronouncements were made.
	www.let.uu.nl /~Ben.J.Peperkamp/personal/internet_essays/helden_copernican_system/helden_copernican_system.htm (2259 words)

	The Copernican Revolution
		In fact it was Bruno's advocacy of the Copernican system that produced one of the strongest reactions by the Church: Bruno advocated not only the heliocentric model, but denied that objects posses a natural motion, denied the existence of a center of the universe, denying even the Sun of a privileged place in the cosmos.
		Figure 3.4: The heliocentric model of Thomas Digges (1546-1595) who enlarged the Copernican system by asserting that the stars are not fixed in a celestial orb, but dispersed throughout the universe.
		Brahe's argument against the Copernican system was roughly the following: if the Earth moves in circles around the Sun, nearby stars will appear in different positions at different times of the year.
	phyun5.ucr.edu /~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node41.html (1005 words)

	Owen Gingerich - CiS-St Edmunds Public Lecture
		We have here a splendid argument for taking away the scruples of those who are so disturbed in the Copernican system by the attendance of the moon around the earth while both complete the annual orbit around the sun that they conclude this system must be overthrown as impossible.
		The Ptolemaic system was thus destined for the scrapheap, and this was situation in 1615 when Bellarmine wrote his letter to Foscarini.
		In other words, the Copernican system very nicely explained the appearances, the phases of Venus, but this did not guarantee that the sun was fixed in the center.
	www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk /cis/gingerich/lecture3.html (1510 words)

	Correspondence Lesson #7
		However, by merely placing the sun in the center and assuming that bodies farther away from the sun moved with slower angular velocity, the Copernican system automatically predicted the phenomenon of retrograde motion.
		According to Copernican theory, the earth was just another planet moving around the sun--there was no sharp distinction between celestial matter and terrestial matter as Aristotle had claimed.
		the phases of Venus as predicted by (a) the Ptolemaic system (b) the Copernican system, and (c) as observed with a low-power telescope.
	www.indiana.edu /~koertge/X200GCorr7.html (1943 words)

	Friday, 7/30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Copernican system has a more natural explanation of the retrograde motion, the correllation between retrograde motion and brightness, and for the fact that Mercury and Venus always appear close to the sun.
		The Copernican system did not greatly improve upon the Ptolemaic system in terms of explanation or prediction.
		He devised a system that adopted most of the advantages of the Copernican system while maintaining the earth at the center of the universe.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~jenkinsm/073004.html (975 words)

	The Quarter Timetable Plan: How Will It Work for Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This plan, sometime called the Copernican Plan, is supposed to provide more flexibility for schools and is to reshape the secondary school structure so that it can cope with the Year 2000 philosophy.
		His new perspective, which assumed that the sun, rather than the earth, is the centre of the planetary system, explained the movements of the planets rationally.
		The Copernican Timetable ran as a pilot program (The Renaissance Program) in part of the school as a program of "choice" student option in the first year, 1989-1990, with 80 Grade 9 students and nine teachers.
	www.bctf.bc.ca /education/timetables/vector3.html (1276 words)

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