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To: Dark Knight
In classical mechanics though the Earth going round the Sun is not a truth. It is just more convenient for the math.
Bingo! The only ancient who posited anything other than the earth as the center of the universe was Pythagoras, to whom Copernicus dedicated his De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.
12 posted on 09/09/2003 1:27:26 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: eastsider
Aristarchus of Samos (3rd century B.C.) believed that the earth revolves around the sun. Philolaus the Pythagorean (c. 470-390 B.C.) made the earth a planet and said that the earth orbits the central fire.

According to the Bible, Joshua made the sun stand still (Joshua 10.12-14, quoting from the lost Book of Jashar). Obviously the Copernican theory is wrong, because it conflicts with the Scriptures.

13 posted on 09/09/2003 1:43:05 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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