(August 27, 2020 at 3:52 pm)Smaug Wrote:(August 25, 2020 at 11:16 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I remember when an Orthodox Christian friend of mine was going on about the baroque elegance of geocentric calculations and how simplicity doesn't mean correct. I was like, 'but gravity!'.
Did he mean the epicycles? I wonder where he found actual calculations for those... those aren't things you just casually google search, I guess. I mean the actual numerical tables or calculations, not the general explanations. This seems to be the stuff you can only find in specialized history books at best.
He did mean the epicycles, but I doubt he studied them personally. He was a religious studies major, not an astronomy major.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.