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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Occam's Razor
Message-ID: <1591@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 22:10:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 22:10:05 1984
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Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

As a couple of kind and discreet (i.e. no public inferno, or even private
inferno) correspondents have pointed out, I mislabelled (and over
simplified) those with whom various theories of the universe are identified.
The Earth-centered system is the Ptolemeic theories as laid out in
"Almagest".  The first (influential) heliocentric theories were those of
Copernicus in "De revolutionibus orbis".  Kepler further simplified the
smaller corrections in orbits by proposing eliptical rather than circular
orbits with little epicycles.
William of Occam was an English scholastic philospher of the 14th century.

Aknowledgements to presley and rivers (and the pocket encyclopedia I should
have checked the first time).
-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
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Santa Monica, CA 90406
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