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Apr. 4th, 2019 04:28 pm
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Yesterday I learned that Copernicus suggested the Earth rotated around the Sun not because he had some new experimental data or observational insight. Rather, his conclusion stemmed from deductive reasoning based on Plato's philosophy.
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