De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
by Nicolaus Copernicus · first published 1543
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…make things even worse: The sentencing clearly states that the earth revolving around the sun "is a proposition absurd and false in philosophy, and formerly heretical", and by that time, Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium had already been placed on the Index of Prohibited Books. Are you saying the church actually knew Galileo was right, and did this anyway?
on “Researcher discovers another astronomy book written by Galileo Galilei” ↗…modern science does not violate any principle of what was considered the best of physics knowledge 500 years ago? We are talking about 1512 here, the year Copernicus started writing what would turn into De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. It would take practically another 150 years for people to start thinking about explaining the motion of planets with an inverse square law. For the record, the classical period of witch hunt was 1480-1750,…
on “Newly released UFO files from the UK government” ↗…suppose Copernicus came up with this Hutter prize idea and declared that he would provide the award to whoever could compress the text of his book on the epicycle-based movement of planets around the sun (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium). Today we can explain the actual motion to high accuracy with a single sentence that would have been understandable in that age: "A line drawn from the sun to any planet sweeps out equal areas in equal…
on “500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge” ↗