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Actually he thought was a great idea but he said there was no point in explaining it because the cardinals were all far too dim to understand.

Later,discoveries of the law of gravity and the laws of motion were used to show that the Earth must rotate around the Sun in an elliptical orbit.

The clincher came in the 19th century with the discovery of stellar parallax for a few of the nearest stars.

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