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As Jesuit schoolboys studying world history we learned that Copernicus and Galileo self-censored for many decades their proofs that the earth revolved around the sun and that a less restrained heliocentrist, Giordano Bruno, was burned alive in 1600 for the crime of sound science.
Science 2009
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A heliocentrist with regard to the solar system, that is?
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As Jesuit schoolboys studying world history we learned that Copernicus and Galileo self-censored for many decades their proofs that the earth revolved around the sun and that a less restrained heliocentrist, Giordano Bruno, was burned alive in 1600 for the crime of sound science.
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As Jesuit schoolboys studying world history we learned that Copernicus and Galileo self-censored for many decades their proofs that the earth revolved around the sun and that a less restrained heliocentrist, Giordano Bruno, was burned alive in 1600 for the crime of sound science.
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As Jesuit schoolboys studying world history we learned that Copernicus and Galileo self-censored for many decades their proofs that the earth revolved around the sun and that a less restrained heliocentrist, Giordano Bruno, was burned alive in 1600 for the crime of sound science.
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Gassendi's libertine, atomist, empiricist, and quasi-heliocentrist views also met with keen interest further afield, among like-minded philosophers and natural scientists in early modern Poland, Italy, and Spain (Murr, 1997).
Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005
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In 1976 a heliocentrist of sorts, Y. P. Varshni, analyzed the spectra of three hundred eighty-five quasars (the farthest known stars from earth).
unknown title 2008
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In 1976 a heliocentrist of sorts, Y. P. Varshni, analyzed the spectra of three hundred eighty-five quasars (the farthest known stars from earth).
unknown title 2008
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While one might in certain contexts claim to be a heliocentrist in particular, it would not be a normal label one would use to describe one’s acceptance of the scientific method within astronomy.
lbeaumont commented on the word heliocentrist
Someone who believes the correct astronomical model has Earth and planets revolving around a stationary Sun.
October 20, 2010