Thony Christie on Nostr: Not directly but the myth is very widely spread. Somewhere, Thomas Kuhn made the ...

Not directly but the myth is very widely spread. Somewhere, Thomas Kuhn made the claim that in the Middle Ages astronomers kept adding circles on circles to the Ptolemaic geocentric model and this was the crisis that led to the paradigm shift represented by Copernicus and heliocentricity. Owen Gingerich pointed out that this was rubbish and that the geocentric model in Georg von Peuerbach's Theoricae Novae Planetarum, which was the first European printed astronomy book