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  • Mikolaj Kopernik a priest???

    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to nathanael culver on Tue Apr 16 07:31:15 2024
    Copernicus - priest

    (Sorry but I can't let this go uncommented.)

    That's an insult of the first scientist to suggest that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, but rather it revolves around the Sun.

    A discovery that he had to keep secret for almost half a century to keep him from the stake, because the Church *knew* that Earth, God's creation, *must* be the centre of the universe.

    If Nicolaus Copernicus heard someone calling him a priest half a millennium later, he most certainly would revolve in his grave.

    He was an astronomer, mathematician, lawyer, economist, military strategist, interpreter, ambassador and a doctor. Anything but a bloody priest!



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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Björn Felten on Tue Apr 16 07:31:15 2024
    That's an insult of the first scientist to suggest that the Earth is not the centre of the universe

    Before someone corrects me, that was meant to read 'the first scientist in Christian time'.

    Prior to that, almost every scientist knew this already...



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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Björn Felten on Tue Apr 16 07:31:15 2024
    Hello Bj”rn,

    That's an insult of the first scientist to suggest that the Earth is
    not
    the centre of the universe

    Before someone corrects me, that was meant to read 'the first scientist
    in Christian time'.

    Prior to that, almost every scientist knew this already...

    You will soon be corrected about your error.

    Very soon.

    --SuperTroll Lee

    --
    Sleep With Someone New

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  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Gerrit Kuehn on Tue Apr 16 07:31:15 2024
    Hello Gerrit,

    On Tuesday April 30 2019 20:44, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

    That's an insult of the first scientist to suggest that the
    Earth is not the centre of the universe, but rather it revolves
    around the Sun.

    Oh, well, I always thought that was Aristarchus of Samos (who lived
    like 1800 years before Kopernikus).

    That too is my understanding. At least he was the first who left records to that effect.


    Cheers, Michiel

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Gerrit Kuehn on Tue Apr 16 07:31:15 2024
    Indeed? I was of the impression that Aristarchos' ideas hardly found any supporters through the centuries

    How would we know? The Christians had more than a thousand years to hunt down every script they could find, that contradicted their interpretation of their holy book (which trumped all scientific discoveries) and destroy them. Not many managed to survive. So we don't really know anything but small fragments that survived this witch-hunt.

    Plus of course, scientist in Asia were much earlier, as I've already reported. Their religions allowed scientific freedom, so their discoveries can often be read still today. Unbiased...




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