...still surviving one had this to say: "This fool wishes to reverse the entire system of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth" — and some thirteen hundred years later a pope issued a bull to the same effect. Another famous...

...reverse) by appealing to the Bible: This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but Sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the Sun to stand still, and not the Earth. Given the prevailing climate of the time, where no one wished to be thought of as taking a casual...

...firmament, the Sun or the Moon. . . . This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy: but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the Sun to stand still and not the Earth." Luther's principal lieutenant, Melanchthon, soon joined in the increasing clamor against Copernicus....

...Martin Luther scornfully remarked, "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the Sun to stand still and not the Earth." Scientists also picked apart the new theory. How could the Earth revolve on its axis without...

...systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth. And Calvin said: "Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy...

...show that the earth revolves. . . . This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." And John Calvin had written in the same mood: "Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus...

...Luther, the reformist remarked that: "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." However, now we know these principles to be based upon reality. Galileo Galileo was born in...

...an "upstart astrologer" and as a "fool [who] wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth."5 Luther's associate Melanchthon (1497-1560) added, The eyes are witnesses that the heavens...

...affirm the value of Copernicus' work. "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth," was Luther's observation about Copernicus while the latter was still alive. Some years later,...

...the sun and the moon," he wrote. "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astrology; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth." That passage in Joshua caused no end of trouble.) As the Protestant Reformation grew,...