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Mark:
As much as I might like to donate toward the perfection of Phil’s social graces, I can’t see how it could be worthwhile participating in a contest in which there is no independent judge. Now, if the $1,000 were irrevocably on deposit with a neutral party empowered to render a decision and distribute the funds …
As for that class I took, I’m not sure which model we used. (It’s been more than 30 years, and I haven’t looked at those mimeographed sheets for a long time.) Perhaps it was the one Tycho himself used. On the other hand, inasmuch as Prof. Wilson was the top man in Kepler studies, perhaps we used Keplerian orbits.
Anyway, at the end of the exercise Prof. Wilson, who must have been aware of both models and of other models, was quite content to say that the geocentrism failed, based on Tycho’s data. I am comfortable relying on his authority now, even if I don’t have a present recollection of how we students drew our own, concurring conclusion from the data all those years ago.
As much as I might like to donate toward the perfection of Phil’s social graces, I can’t see how it could be worthwhile participating in a contest in which there is no independent judge. Now, if the $1,000 were irrevocably on deposit with a neutral party empowered to render a decision and distribute the funds …
As for that class I took, I’m not sure which model we used. (It’s been more than 30 years, and I haven’t looked at those mimeographed sheets for a long time.) Perhaps it was the one Tycho himself used. On the other hand, inasmuch as Prof. Wilson was the top man in Kepler studies, perhaps we used Keplerian orbits.
Anyway, at the end of the exercise Prof. Wilson, who must have been aware of both models and of other models, was quite content to say that the geocentrism failed, based on Tycho’s data. I am comfortable relying on his authority now, even if I don’t have a present recollection of how we students drew our own, concurring conclusion from the data all those years ago.
