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- From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
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- Subject: Re: Copernicus and Heliocentricity
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:09:57 GMT
- References: <23874@galaxy.ucr.edu>
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- In article <23874@galaxy.ucr.edu> judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Michael Judson) writes:
- >Copernicus was said to have "invented" a heliocentric universe simply because
- >it was more appealing to him. Being that he believed that light was a symbol
- >of God, he would put that representation of God at the center of the universe
- >and hence put the sun at the center of the solar system. However, the
- >Protestants, being literalists of the Bible, rejected this notion because the
- >Bible specifically stated that the earth was at the center of the universe...
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- Reference, please?
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- Carrie ceb@rechenau.unify.com x6244
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