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the sun stopped orbiting us the day we admitted we weren't that important.
means the model of the solar system where planets, including earth, orbit the sun rather than the reverse.
from copernicus published it quietly in 1543, on his deathbed, dodging the fight he knew was coming; galileo picked it up decades later and got the inquisition instead of applause.
ancient hintaristarchus of samos proposed it around 250 bce
galileo's punishmenthouse arrest for the rest of his life
church reversalvatican formally cleared galileo in 1992
kepler's fixorbits are ellipses, not perfect circles
for instance
galileo's trial — rome, 1633, forced to recant before the inquisition
copernicus's book — de revolutionibus, published the year he died, 1543
kepler's laws — 1609-1619, refined orbits into ellipses using tycho brahe's data