I went on a wikipedia binge instead of doing what I should've done.
I can't for the life of me figure out when people realized that the sun is moving as well. Heliocentrism seemed to just swap out the static center of the universe for the guys I read about.
I even looked at their timeline for astronomy and it's not on there either. Seems like a pretty big thing?
the TL;DR was that the movement of planets was modelled as being great circles on a fixed distance away from us, with more and more circles added to make the math match up to observations as they improved, before it got abandoned because it was getting stupidly complex and then the idea of irregularly shaped orbits not around us was looking waaay simpler
EDIT: the celestial sphere models were getting pretty cool looking when they were doing stuff like, jupiter goes in a circle whose center goes in a circle whose center goes in a circle around the sun and such, it must be said
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_spheres
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_of_the_celestial_spheres
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the TL;DR was that the movement of planets was modelled as being great circles on a fixed distance away from us, with more and more circles added to make the math match up to observations as they improved, before it got abandoned because it was getting stupidly complex and then the idea of irregularly shaped orbits not around us was looking waaay simpler
EDIT: the celestial sphere models were getting pretty cool looking when they were doing stuff like, jupiter goes in a circle whose center goes in a circle whose center goes in a circle around the sun and such, it must be said
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...holy shit
They set a design goal for their upgrade programme that their entire "all-weather" rescue fleet should be capable of 25 knots in any weather by 2019
And given that they pull people off ships in trouble they have a fairly expansive definition of "any weather"
They had to go to a specialist manufacturer of composite racing yacht hulls to do it
YEA! Yea, it's nuts!
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