The Great First One, our Unkulunkulu, does not hear me and turns away from my voice. I am at the end of my world. My feet and hands are tied. I can smell the ocean drawing near to swallow me. I am broken off from my people. All I can do is cry! Why do you speak now of...
Galileo’s Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which argues for the superiority of the heliocentric Copernican over the geocentric Ptolemaic system, is a classic straw man argument. By 1632, astronomers had all but abandoned the Ptolemaic system, which had become untenable in ...