I thought it was Galileo that said the earth orbits the sun.
(and was persecuted by the church)
From further in the news story:
“The pageantry comes 18 years after the Vatican rehabilitated the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was persecuted in the Inquisition for carrying the Copernican Revolution forward.”
Galileo made the claim but he could not prove it; from his observations, all he could prove is that not all objects orbit Earth. Copernicus did the math to actually prove that the planets orbit the Sun.
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