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Ptolemy's success a tragedy for humanity
Ptolemy's success, however, created a tragedy for humanity. The fixing of the evidence with fudge factors delayed the discovery of the real cause for the planets' orbits for nearly 1,500 years. It delayed it all the way till Kepler discovered the force of gravity and the laws of its interaction with mass. But we are not out of the woods yet on this issue. The laws that Kepler discovered are being denied again in cosmology, under new doctrines, and we are back to playing the epicycles game once more.
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