Transcription: As more and more observations led to more and more epicycles being added to the Ptolemaic system, the Ptolemaic system became more and more unruly. Eventually Copernicus came along and said that God would not create such an unruly solar system. Instead, God would design something simple and elegant. As a result, Copernicus proposed that the solar system looked more like this. In his view of the solar system, the sun was at the center and the planets, including the Earth, orbited around the Sun. Now the moon still orbited around the Earth but the planets orbited around the Sun. We sometimes cal ...
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