Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago

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This video briefly covers the history of cosmological models from the ancient Greeks to the Islamic World in the Middle Ages and to Europe in the beginning of the Renaissance. The retrograde motion of Mars is demonstrated.

The Geocentric Model
Challenging the Geocentric Model
The Solution to the Retrograde Problem

Powerpoint: noisyastronomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1.3-ScientificRevolution-sm.pptx
Autogenerated transcript by otter.ai: noisyastronomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PS101-Su20-OL-1.3-transcript_otter.ai_.txt
More information about this series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1U6VpTpSR4zdM6P8nysRWV8UWInWR9r5