Even though, in his 1543 De revolutionibus orbium celestium, Nicolas Copernicus used the hypothesis of a sun-centered universe with a moving Earth to explain observed locations, and changes of location, of the planets, his hypothesis was underdetermined because

MCQs on the origins and development of modern science and how that is distinguished from pseudo-science; the importance of deduction and induction and their separate methodologies; the process of the scientific method; scientific change and scientific revolutions, particularly that of Thomas Kuhn; and selected philosophical problems in the basic sciences, such as absolute space, biological classification, the modular mind, and recent discoveries of neuroscience.