The Failure of the Critical Theorists

There's all this kind of interesting Kepler, all this interesting stuff was going on in the 16th century. And at one point, they were trying to reconcile the data that they were observing. They're looking at the planets and they're like, well, a simple circle doesn't work. But when you suddenly switch from the geocentric model over to the heliocentric model,. you put the sun at the center, what you realize is there's not a little circle on a little orbit or something like this but epicycle on an epicycle on a cycle.

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