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Originally Posted by Drolefille
There's quite a bit more to it than that.
Copernicus was the .. discoverer? theorizer? not sure the right word there... of the heliocentric model of the solar system. His work wasn't criticized by the church for 60 years until Galileo. (he was never convicted of heresy to my knowledge) Galileo himself was convicted of grave suspicion of heresy. His actual conviction had a lot more to do with everything around the actual theory of heliocentrism than the actual theory itself.
Kepler was Lutheran.
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Nonetheless, all 3 significantly advanced our understanding of how the EARTH goes around the sun...
We haven't even gotten into what the Ancient Egyptians and Pre-Columbian Americans knew, for real tho...
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