I received a lot of responses to the Ptolemaic Code discussion, which brought up a good point.

[dk@tldr.nettime.org]

I received a lot of responses to the Ptolemaic Code discussion, which brought up a good point. The early versions of the Copernican model were actually less practical than the Ptolemaic one.
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[dk@tldr.nettime.org]

Having a more accurate understanding of the system doesn’t automatically make applications based on on that understanding easier to use.
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[dk@tldr.nettime.org]

Although it might have been hard for sailors to use the new model at first, the fact that it was based on a consistent and logical way of understanding meant that people could improve and develop it over time, like Kepler did.
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