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What is the significance of Plato’s problem of “saving the appearances” to the scientific mindset of the philosophers and Differentiate geocentric from heliocentric model of the universe.
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What is the significance of Plato’s problem of “saving the appearances” to the scientific mindset of the philosophers and Differentiate geocentric from heliocentric model of the universe.

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If it started with Plato or a little later, the job for Greek Astronomers employed as the platonic tradition was, correctly or incorrectly, to save appearances: obviously to describe, in a mixture of uniform circular motions, irregular motion observed by senses.

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