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.