"Up to a point, Lord Copper." Insofar as it is rediscovering a paradigm which has been ridiculed where it has not merely been ignored, then TSSI is indeed Copernican; this of course puts Marx in the role of Heraclitus. In other respects, though, I should be sorry if TSSI came to be so regarded. If one follows Koestler''s account in "The Sleepwalkers", Copernicus (a) was motivated by the view that the Ptolemaic system was insufficiently rigorous in implementing the doctrine that heavenly motion was perfectly circular of necessity (b) introduced a greater quantity of redundant celestial clockwork than even the Ptolemaists made use of (d) was extremely cautious about claiming that his scheme was more than an alternative method of saving the appearances. On this account (and accepting TSSI's claims) it is the simultaneists who are the Copernicans: TSSI is Keplerite. Julian
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