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To: koan who wrote (779056)	4/8/2014 2:55:44 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574091

>> The church did not allow scientist's to tell the truth for hundreds of years. When the scientist's finally got to tell the truth civilization prospered. The church had nothing to do with it: That ancient astronomers could convince themselves that this elaborate scheme still corresponded to "uniform circular motion" is testament to the power of three ideas that we now know to be completely wrong, but that were so ingrained in the astronomers of an earlier age that they were essentially never questioned: All motion in the heavens is uniform circular motion. The objects in the heavens are made from perfect material, and cannot change their intrinsic properties (e.g., their brightness). The Earth is at the center of the Universe. These ideas concerning uniform circular motion and epicycles were catalogued by Ptolemy in 150 A.D. His book was called the "Almagest" (literally, "The Greatest"), and this picture of the structure of the Solar System has come to be called the "Ptolemaic Universe". Once again, you are just factually ignorant or lying, and I am not suggesting which, only that one of the two is true. Arguing with you is like shooting fish in a barrel.