From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Charles Packer   wrote:   
   >   
   >Of course I know about Copernicus, but he didn't just "pretend"   
   >heliocentrism; he proposed it as an actual fact, didn't he?   
      
   You know, I have never read Copernicus' book.  I probably should.   
      
   Galileo may or may not have been certain about heliocentrism personally,   
   but what with the Pope and all what he said in public was kind of guarded.   
   But not guarded enough.  And I gather that he was kind of an ass which did   
   not help matters.   
   --scott   
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