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The History of Astronomy
Early astronomers were willing to accept these weird epicycles and so forth because they didn't yet understand that the orbits were elliptical. Descartes came up with his very mathematical system that he was observing something about reality as a way of saving the appearances for what might come afterwards. The ancients were more humble in the sense that they accepted God's ways are mysterious but we have minds and we can come up with models that are useful right predictive.
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