Eppur si muove...

"And yet it moves" is a phrase said to have been uttered before the Inquisition by the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant that the earth moves around the sun.

The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. 470 years later. Should our planet survive, what of our accepted beliefs today will have been blown away by scientific insight?

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