Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)

Staving Nik Taylor:
>Ray Brown wrote:
> > I truly thought that belief had died out.
>
>I once found a (serious, I think) geocentricist web page.
>
>Well, here's a few links, not the page I had found before, but good ones
>none the less:
>http://www.geocentricity.com/index.htm <-- Apparently some sort of weird
>geocentric-heliocentric hybrid.  From what I could tell (I didn't delve
>too deeply into it) the sun goes around the Earth, and everything else
>goes aroudn the Sun, according to this theory
Sounds like something Tycho Brahe once came up with. What with the
controversy of the times (stirred up by the reformation no doubt, thus
making the Church more suspicious of new thinking than it had previously
been), it may have been an attempt at a compromise solution. Tycho's
student, Johannes Kepler, managed to move the debate on a bit by coming up
with a model with greater predictive power than either geocentricism or
naive heliocentricism.

Pete