Now that you know about the Ptolemaic, Copernican, and the Tychonic planetary systems, try to put yourself in the position of an astronomer at the beginning of the 1600s. Given the evidence and arguments that were available at the time (from Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho, and Kepler), which of the three systems would you have believed in? Which two or three reasons/arguments would you find most persuasive?
The text is called, “Worldviews” by Richard Dewitt
