"Bob Hughes" <bob### [at] charternet> schreef in bericht
news:42db72ee$1@news.povray.org...
> Hey Thomas, I've always thought Kepler's model would be the perfect thing
to
> do in POV-Ray.
>
> Maybe adding a cumpled, scribbled over drawing of the Earth-centered
> universe on the floor would fit in with this. A drawing of the Copernican
> heliocentric universe could be put into the bottom of the large
hemisphere.
> Would then look like the other were replaced. Well, except I don't think
> Kepler ever even considered an Earth-centered universe. Not really sure
what
> he thought of it. Might throw off the whole scene.
>
> Bob
>
That's an interesting idea, Bob. I shall see if I follow that up. I think
that Kepler in his early days may have believed in a Ptolemaic solar system,
i.e. Earth-centered. But I am really not sure about this. PM 2Ring should
know!

Thomas

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