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Re: Two years after Galileo: an English telescope in Japan
From: David Fleming
Date: 2020 Dec 28, 11:38 -0800
From: David Fleming
Date: 2020 Dec 28, 11:38 -0800
I find it hard to believe that there was possibly a proof of heliocentrism available to Galileo. If someone can recall such a proof please post.
Absent any understanding of Newton's ideas governing the motions of bodies one could always suppose that deus ex machina causes the observations to be due to a stationary earth and moving celestial bodies.
DaveF
