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Jean-Baptiste Morin – Scientist of the Day

Jean-Baptiste Morin, a French astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer, was born Feb. 23, 1583, in Villefranche, in the Beaujolais. Learn more

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Matching the observations of the wandering stars – the planets – of the night sky with the idea that the Earth was at the centre of the solar system required extremely complex models. In the case of Venus, combining the Earth at the centre with the observations meant that Venus had a circular orbit around a point midway between the Earth and the Sun, so-called epicycles, with all the other planets having similar complicated orbits around various points scattered around the solar system. Placing the Sun at the centre of the solar system, with the planets arranged in their familiar order, with Moon orbiting the Earth, gave a much simpler system.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

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Libert Froidmont – Scientist of the Day

Libert Froidmont, a natural philosopher and theologian of Liège and Louvain (Leuven) in the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium), died Oct. 28, 1653, at the age of 66.