
doi: 10.5772/35375
From ancient times there has been a quest to understand the position of human kind in the cosmic order and to develop predictive system which could warn us of the impending natural calamity. In a continuing quest for an accurate predictive system, in Greek times Ptolemy kept our Planet at the center of the Universe and propagated the Geo-centric World View [Gale (2005-2006), Lawson (2004)]. In 16th century at the height of Renaissance, in a paradigm shift work but which was very much in keeping with common-sense , Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician, astronomer and catholic monk, presented his book “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (on the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)” first printed in 1542 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation[Hawking (2005), Kuhn (1957), Windleband (1958), Crowe (1990)]. It offered a new framework for calculating the positions of the planets and this computational framework was tied to a Helio-centric World View [Hawking (2005)].
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