The Copernican revolution wasn't as clear-cut as it seems in hindsight. Great essay argues that it was reasonable to reject heliocentrism at the time:https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/JAAHjm4iZ2j5Exfo2/the-copernican-revolution-from-the-inside …
It's reasonable even now: https://plus.google.com/+MichaelNielsen/posts/5nMnmCp97hi … + the comments, especially those from Tim Gowers.
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Am I correct that this view would imply the entire universe moving in near lockstep with a point near the center of the sun around the earth?
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Basically this post is the math joke: differential geometry is the study of invariants under change of notation.
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Besides conflating various degrees of wrongness(as the commenters point out), this bothers me. Yes, diffeomorphism in differential geometry. But if someone draws a circle, no one would approach them to say hey circles don't exist, we only have automorphisms.
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