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Re:Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012) by pbhjpbhj on Saturday October 29, 2016 @10:06AM (#12823988)
>heading off the whole "Earth is the centre of Universe" thing that held back modern thinking //

How do you think that held us back? Do you think heliocentrism, which is similarly wrong, has/is holding us back?

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Re:Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012) by pavel_lishin on Saturday October 29, 2016 @11:24AM (#12824329)
It was a fundamental break-through. We were no longer at the center of the conceptual Universe. Whether that something is the Sun, the center of the Milky Way, or doesn't actually exist in space, doesn't matter as much as the initial realization.
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