Actually . . . there's much evidence to the contrary. Copernicus . . .Tycho Brahe . . . Kepler . . . not to mention their predecessors in India, Greece, and the Muslim world . . . and no doubt others, of whom we know little or nothing. Dan On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:54 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > Remember, everybody knew that the sun rotated around the earth in > the 16th > century, except for a guy named Galileo.