Posted: Apr 19, 2010 10:56 pm
Jakov wrote:The headline is misleading, it implies Galileo ignored /all/ the evidence and dogmatically backed one system.
What happened was Galileo was weighing up the evidence, he had seen the phases of Venus which might have convinced him of the heliocentric system.
Yes I thought it was mostly the phases of Venus which led to the adoption of the Copernican system, not the size of stars or "airy discs" whatever that is. Then again I'm no science historian.