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No; everything developed in science is simply subsumed, not replaced, under a larger theory when necessary. edit: Actually, Ptolemy’s model was more predictively accurate than Coppernicus’. All of that mathematics was then absorbed when Relativity equations were shown to fix the problems with predictiing the orbit of Mercury.
