HISTORICAL CONTINGENCY FOR COSMOLOGY [2]-TYCHO BRACHE’S GEOCENTRIC UNIVERSE

Abstract

Before the invention of a telescope, Tycho Brache developed his geocentric model of the Universe. Some of the historical contingencies are discussed in a context of the early Scientific Revolution. Even though considered to be the simplest and a sufficiently accurate model, Tycho’s geocentric model played very little role in the transition from Ptolemy’s to Copernican model.