the full excerpt (this is a clip from an excerpt of the book) has some details about Copernicus’ only astronomy student, who besides being a Lutheran to C’s R Catholicism, was in the manner of the young all fired up about his received philosophy about astronomy. Aristotle’s writings on the subject helped hold back the science of astronomy until the present day — the last blow to one of his idiocies was struck in 1994, when the fragments of SL-9 crashed one by one into Jupiter, leaving Earth-sized scars in the Jovian atmosphere.
Could you elaborate? Which of Aristotle’s idiocies was disproven by the comet fragments crashing into Jupiter?
What puzzles me is that when the Left usurped the “scientific method” to install their secular faith into all things academic they did not re-adopt the Ptolemaic System as it too had the potential to make man the center of the universe like socialism does.With a minor fabricated “peer reviewed” fib,a talent ubiquitous in Leftist academia,the original promotion of God’s affectionate focus on man that made the original Geocentric Model attractive to the ruling priestly class could not only be dismissed and it’s proponents shunned and sued to bankruptcy as violating the nonexistent constitutional separation of church and state— The “Man as Satan” Gaia and Gore theological misanthropy could then logically take the place of God at the center of the universe thus making ALL opposition to the church of environmentalist wackos heretical,treasonous and felonies against humanity—all CAPITAL CRIMES.