Article ID: CBB076879380

The First Copernican Was Copernicus: The Difference Between Pre-Copernican and Copernican Heliocentrism (2018)

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It is well known that heliocentrism was proposed in ancient times, at least by Aristarchus of Samos. Given that ancient astronomers were perfectly capable of understanding the great advantages of heliocentrism over geocentrism—i.e., to offer a non-ad hoc explanation of the retrograde motion of the planets and to order unequivocally all the planets while even allowing one to know their relative distances—it seems difficult to explain why heliocentrism did not triumph over geocentrism or even compete significantly with it before Copernicus. Usually, scholars refer to explanations of sociological character. In this paper, I offer a different explanation: that the pre-Copernican heliocentrism was essentially different from the Copernican heliocentrism, in such a way that the adduced advantages of heliocentrism can only be attributed to Copernican heliocentrism, but not to pre-Copernican heliocentrism proposals.

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Authors & Contributors
Lerner, Michel-Pierre
Goddu, André
De Pace, Anna
Karas, Marcin
Bienias, Barbara
Godley, Douglas
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Copernicanism
Heliocentrism
Mathematics
Natural philosophy
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
Early modern
15th century
Medieval
Places
Italy
Europe
Prague (Czechia)
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