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I haue read to wit in ye olde boks of lyrning that one Galileo Galilei was of an opinion wherein hee gathered various observations and calculations along with respective proofs for a heliocentric system.
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Galileo proved jacksquat. In fact, he went backwards and made the same calculation mistakes of Copernicus that Kepler had corrected.
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I haue heard him make convincing arguments for the Copernican school of thought upon this philosophy.
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His argument was based on tides. Even modern heliocentricists don't buy his ridiculous argument anymore (let alone Galileo's highly educated inquisitors).
The World's First HDTV Shot of the Earth (But Still No Sign of the Earth Moving)
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Ridiculous, Benwah! Did we not have this discussion about 400 years ago?
Besides, I know for a fact that the earth rotates. When I was a small child, I used to spin around and around, then I would fall down in the grass and I FELT the earth spinning!
MOREOVER! Aren't you forgetting Newton's law of gravitation? Yes, oh, yes, ha ha, I think someone needs a little Physics review! And that someone is thou! O thou Benwah! Thou needest a Physics review!
BENWAH!