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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on March 07, 2010, 20:26

Title: Galileo backed Copernicus despite data
Post by: sam on March 07, 2010, 20:26

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100305/full/news.2010.105.html

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Galileo Galilei was right: Earth moves around the Sun, just as Nicolaus Copernicus said it did in 1543. But had Galileo followed the results of his observations to their logical conclusion, he should have backed another system — the Tychonic view that Earth didn't move, and that everything else circled around it and the Sun, as developed by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the sixteenth century.

Title: Re: Galileo backed Copernicus despite data
Post by: Clive on March 07, 2010, 21:59

What a wonderful article!  Nothing will shake my beliefs in geocentrism.   ;D

Title: Re: Galileo backed Copernicus despite data
Post by: sam on March 07, 2010, 22:15

 :o

Title: Re: Galileo backed Copernicus despite data
Post by: Clive on March 07, 2010, 22:37

 :devil: