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To: GourmetDan
"The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, 'the sun is at rest and the earth moves,' or 'the sun moves and the earth is at rest,' would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS."

Einstein and Infeld, The Evolution of Physics, p.212 (p.248 in original 1938 ed.)

Could you please provide additional documentation on this quote? I am unable to find a reliable source through google.

138 posted on 12/15/2006 8:50:06 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
"Could you please provide additional documentation on this quote? I am unable to find a reliable source through google."

See link for ISBN etc. You can even find a nearby library.

http://www.librarything.com/work-info/177892

145 posted on 12/17/2006 7:07:28 PM PST by GourmetDan
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To: Coyoteman
"Could you please provide additional documentation on this quote? I am unable to find a reliable source through google."

OK man. I did some work for you. See the following links for Einstein's geocentric quote.

http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2002-February/005338.html

This one has another nice geocentric quote in it. See #76 in the bottom part of the post at the above link.

http://www.gfisher.org/chapter_7.htm

See above for Mr. Fisher's quote from the post in his online book.

http://redshift.vif.com/JournalFiles/V08NO3PDF/V08N3GRE.PDF

See above for another source of the same quote.

Hopefully, one of these non-creationist links will suffice.

168 posted on 12/18/2006 2:58:28 PM PST by GourmetDan
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