Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer and Curtis Wilson on the Origin of Nicholas Copernicus’s Heliocentrism

What moved Copernicus to switch from the time-honored geocentric to a heliocentric setup for the planetary system? He himself did not explain this momentous move in any detail—his only comments about it suggest that Ptolemy’s complete solution to the problem of nonuniform motion, the equant model, l...

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