Is that right? Is this analogous to doing physics in rotating reference frame? Heard something like that once. You end up having to include "illusions" like centrifugal force etc, but they can be made consistent

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Raison d'État 0 months ago
It is :) By Copernicus' time, astronomers had observations over sufficient time to recognise the geocentric model was going to also require higher-order eccentrics to remain consistent with reality. If they'd had calculus, they could have kept going...