This article is wrong on many levels. A very good article to read about this is '"Crisis" versus Aesthetic in the Copernican Revolution' by Owen Gingerich
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4258973/Crisis%2...
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4258973/Crisis%2...
People say these things about almost every OP on HN; the claim itself isn't a signal.