Re: 22 June 1633: Galileo Forced to Recant HeliocentricTheory

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

Yeah, definitely shouldn't have used plural there... I was just
following the inevitable logic one would follow that if the earth
isn't the center of the universe, what is...etc.. So, he didn't
"discover" anything, but maybe lead those to come to the eventual
truth. Further, he said what couldn't be said and paid the price.
Truth, like freedom, always comes at a cost.

On 6/25/06, StyleWar <stylewar () cox net> wrote:
> Copernicus correctly postulated that OUR sun was the center of this system
> but I don't think it's fair to attribute to him the discovery of solar
> systems (in the plural sense of a group of them making up what are in
> actuality, full galaxies).
>
> -
>
> StyleWar
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