Gab@StFerdinandIII - https://unstabbinated.substack.com/
Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
In the last post we looked at the foundational ideas for Kepler’s theory and his drastic amendment of Copernicus’ model. We noticed his occultism, his worship of the Sun, Platonic religiosity, the unjustified and unscientific use of Plato’s ‘solids’ and the Greek ideal of symmetry. We also witnessed his dependency on Tycho Brahe’s charts and observations. We saw that Kepler’s own maths could have ‘proven’ the Tychonic geo-helio-centric model, yet for personal and philosophical motivations he decided to align his complicated geometry behind Platonic theory. We will now discuss the concept of ‘proof’ for Keplerian theory which is never discussed or taught.
Kepler’s modifications of the Copernican model did not alleviate the many anomalies regarding the motions of the planets which still remain today. Kepler’s maths explaining the elliptical motion of planets is only an approximation and could be described as a poor one. Planetary orbits are not perfect circles but are imperfect ellipses. The planets precess at different rates, and all contain eccentricities that cannot be explained by the Keplerian method. More here