You'd like 'The Great
Ptolemaic Smackdown and Down-and-Dirty
Mud-Wrassle
A revisionist essay by
the author of the GREAT 'In the Country of the Blind,' Michael F. Flynn.
A revisionist history
of the heliocentric controversy.
Analog, Jan.-Feb.
2013.
History ain't what it
seems. He starts out by challenging us
to prove the heliocentric system. He
mentions Vansina's 'Oral Tradition as History,' and goes on from there.
In Footnote 10: 'The
Renaissance replaced the syllogism with the witty insult'.
Love in King Jesus,
New Charlie
PS: It's worth
subscribing to Analog just for this article, and one can start one's
subscription with this issue, I believe.
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