Dispelling myths and highlighting history of the heliocentric model

摘要

The truth about a problem, and in particular about a scientific one, generally has many sides and is difficult to reach. So it is with the history of the Copernican model of the solar system and how it was finally adopted.Although the textbook version is inexact in some details and certainly not complete, the same could be said about several statements Mano Singham makes in his article discussing those myths(PHYSICS TODAY,December 2007, page 48).