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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2361780, member: 19463&quot;]Aristarchus of Samos proposed the sun was the center in the 3rd Century BC.&nbsp; Christian dogma made this view unacceptable for reasons having nothing to do with science.&nbsp; What Caesar though on the matter, I do not know but don&#039;t be too quick to insist his science advisers were ignorant of how this worked.&nbsp; Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD was a proponent of ethnocentrism but there are suggestions in works between those dates that suggest at least some serious astronomers understood.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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