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by WILLIAM J. BROAD
[ from The New York Times ]
THE story of astronomy is one long, slow assault on our sense of self-importance. The ancients knew they were at the center of things. Their eyes told them that the sun and stars moved around them day and night, eternally circling their snug homes.
It took the abstractions of science to undo the obvious. Copernicus dislodged the Earth from its place of glory and put the Sun in the center. Before long, astronomers discovered that the Sun was commonplace and that our own… Continued…
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