“Subject: Urgent Warning”

Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:27PM (#10932712)

Indeed. He was totally a crank, and also an asshole (which is what got him under house arrest). He was rightfully rejected by contemporary scientific community for pushing a model that didn't even agree with empirical data about planetary motions they've accumulated so far, as opposed to the commonly accepted models.

Yes, be careful in that respect, because the story of Galileo is one of the common historical misconceptions.

EDIT: Sources - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10878748.

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Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by kelvin0 on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:51PM (#10932923)

Could you please give me some citations, papers or any reference? Was he not an advocate of the Heliocentric model accepted today, that almost got him killed? Please correct my historical misconceptions.

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Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:53PM (#10933447)

Added a link to sources to my original comment.

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Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by kelvin0 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:41AM (#10937942)

Will definitely be reading that thanks. However this does not change my initial point: some forward thinking individuals are ahead of their time and are sometimes ostracized for the wrong reasons.

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