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Old 10-July-2003, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Emspak
Ptolemy was a scientist, and he was working with available data at the time.
However, Aristotle was clearly off his rocker. Perfectly hard crystalline spheres carrying the planets around the Earth in uniform circular motion? The moon being blemish-free? What were you smoking when you wrote that, Aristotle?!
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