What is 1 difficulty Copernicus faced while working on the copernicus heliocentric theory?
What I was taught in school was that Copernicus’s theory did away with the older Ptolemaic theory by being simpler.and that the reason the theory took so long to be accepted was that the Roman Catholic Church suppressed his book so it was not widely read. It came as a surprise to me that the theory in its original form by Copernicus was not simpler and his book, De Revolutionibus , published on his death bed was hugely popular. Copernicus like Ptolemy before him believed that planetary orbits were perfect circles. Because of this he had the same problem as Ptolemy in having to put in fudge factors to get the actual motions observed to agree agree with his theory. Contrary to what Arthur Koestler said Copernicus’s book, De Revolutionibus, was widely read by astronomers all over Europe. It was so popular that there were two editions of it published. Even with its popularity, it was not accepted as a better theory than the Ptolemaic epicycles, until Kepler discovered that the planets trav
