The silent war for world-view dominance

The heliocentric model won over the geocentric Ptolemaic and Tychian (of Tycho Brahe) models in no small part because of the work of Tycho Brahe’s masonic disciple Johannes Kepler. By carefully studying the celestial objects (on the firmament) under extended periods, Tycho Brahe had a passion for exact facts and owned data that his young apprentice Kepler wanted to use for his purpose to verify the Copernican heliocentric model. Still, Brahe would …