On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:25 -0400
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Fit the bill ... well.. so did the Geocentric model .. and it
> > actually did work just as fine .. and even better yet since it also
> > mantained the "status quo" ! ... but then Galileo came and you know
> > the rest of the story ...
>
> Actually it didn't. It didn't describe observable conditions and
> events.
>
It appears that Copernicus built his bike shed 100 years before Galileo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus