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- From: rwmurphr@wildcat.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert W Murphree)
- Subject: Re: Copernicus and Heliocentricity
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:38:37 GMT
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- ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) writes:
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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
- Obviously, since Kepler was a protestant.
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