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The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed The Truth and Other Events in History That Dramatically Altered Our Understanding of the World (Back Bay Books) (edit title)

James Lee Burke (Author) (edit contributors)

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Revision of Burke's highly successful original of 1985. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Somebody once observed to the eminent philosopher Wittgenstein how stupid medieval Europeans living before the time of Copernicus must have been that they could have looked at the sky and thought that the sun was circling the earth.

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  1. James Lee Burke (Author)
 

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