Tycho Brahe
In Our Time: History
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Adam Tollamek's Geo-Heliocentric System
His geo-heliocentric system was ultimately proved wrong. He did think that he had observational grounds which to support his system, and his system did become more important after his death in the 17th century. But with the telescope, there was new observational evidence against the Tollamek system against geocentrism. His observational work was in many ways unprecedented. It was novel. It was systematic. And it evolved a sense of observational error and chased down errors of multiple forms in ways that none of his predecessors or many of his contemporaries undertook. The physical sciences were a collaborative enterprise. Astronomy to do astronomy the way he needed to do it, empirically he needed a team.
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