i thought they were going to burn him, but galileo recanted...of course he was right all along.
church proposed that not only was the earth flat, it was the center of the universe and all the heavenly bodies orbited around it....oops. pretty good display of why the church has no business in science....
way back when, the first cartographers made their primitive maps, all the known world was surrounded by mystery...the edges of the earth and 'here be dragons'...unknown, unexplained, so it must be supernatural.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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