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 title: Realism vs. Instrumentalism
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 # Realism vs. Instrumentalism
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 > [!quote] George E. P. Box, British statistician
 > All models are wrong, but some are useful.

-> [!quote] _Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?_, Opinionated History of Mathematics (pp.)
+> [!quote] _Opinionated History of Mathematics_, "Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?" (pp.)
 > Ptolemy's lunar model is "flawed"
 > in that it inaccurately describes Luna's distance from Earth,
 > however Ptolemy only ever uses the model to predict eclipses,