(October 9, 2011 at 9:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Does anyone know what that bit about the shape of the Sun suggesting the Earth doesn't orbit it was all about? Everything else - apart from Darwin's henchmen - was the usual crap, but that Sun-thing was baffling to me.
The only thing I could think of that he might be talking about was is the theory of Ptolemy.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Ptolemaic+theory
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