Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Tychonic system (or Tychonian system) was a model of the Solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system. The model may have been inspired by Valentin Naboth and Paul Wittich, a Silesian mathematician and astronomer. A similar yet mathematically more efficient geoheliocentric model was also proposed a century earlierby Nilakantha Somayaji of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.It is essentially a geocentric model; the Earth is at the center of the universe. The Sun and Moon and the stars revolve around the Earth, and the other five planets revolve around the Sun. It can be shown that the motions of the planets and the Sun relative to the Earth in Brahe's system are mathematically equivalent to the motions in Copernicus' heliocentric system, but the Tychonic system fit the available data better than Copernicus system."@en }
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- Tychonic_system abstract "The Tychonic system (or Tychonian system) was a model of the Solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system. The model may have been inspired by Valentin Naboth and Paul Wittich, a Silesian mathematician and astronomer. A similar yet mathematically more efficient geoheliocentric model was also proposed a century earlierby Nilakantha Somayaji of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.It is essentially a geocentric model; the Earth is at the center of the universe. The Sun and Moon and the stars revolve around the Earth, and the other five planets revolve around the Sun. It can be shown that the motions of the planets and the Sun relative to the Earth in Brahe's system are mathematically equivalent to the motions in Copernicus' heliocentric system, but the Tychonic system fit the available data better than Copernicus system.".