Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!darrelj 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 Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1591 Posted: Wed Dec 19 22:10:05 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:22:11 EST References: <217@looking.UUCP> <> <306@aesat.UUCP> <1559@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 21 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. 2500 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, CA 90406 (213)820-4111 x5449 ...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,orstcs,sdcsvax,ucla-cs,akgua} !sdcrdcf!darrelj VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA