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Garden Master
On this day, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ..
. Galileo Galilei ..
. arrived in Rome to face heresy charges for advocating the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Steve
. Galileo Galilei ..
. arrived in Rome to face heresy charges for advocating the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Steve
? Magellan had set out in 1519 to circumnavigate the world. That was over a century earlier than when these "good guys" were hauling Galileo in for suggesting that he could identify planets, including the Earth, circling the Sun. Surely, navigators months out on the open oceans ~ years! ~ would have some idea of what the planets were doing, relative to the Earth. And, how reasonable it could be that the Earth was circling the Sun, rather than the idea of some caveman that it was the other way around!