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Voltaire2

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3. Copernicus was not the first.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Jun 9, 2024, 06:07 PM

Jun 2024

There were Greeks (of course) who figured this out. Aristarchus of Samos in the 4th century bce for example. Aristotle rejected this because there was no observed parallax effect. As whatever Aristotle happened to state became dogma within the scholastic philosophy of the middle ages, that’s where we got stuck for about 1000 years.

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