| Galileo Galilei is without a doubt the most famous heretic and no one I could blame him for recanting just before to suffer the Torment of the Holy Inquisition. Which did not prevent him from exclaiming, for posterity, his Famous formula: "And yet it turns!" To the looks of it, 17 centuries earlier, Aristarchus of Samos was the first to affirm that the Earth is the one that revolves around the Sun, because this simple system was more in keeping with the remarks. And they're just philosophical arguments and who concealed this trait of ingenuity.It will be necessary to waiting for other heretics, Copernicus and Johannes Kepler, with his famous laws, which were admitted only several decades later, so that the solar system and its elliptical orbits, impose themselves on all or almost. | | Kepler, when he revealed his laws, was fought by all his enemies. contemporaries, including Galileo, who did not admit the The idea of elliptical orbits because it was contrary to dogma of the perfection of the circle (which shows that No one escapes dogmatism).It will be necessary to Wait for the astrologer's universal law of gravitation alchemist, Isaac Newton, himself very controversial for several decades to definitively establish the Heliocentric system. The great Newton's revolution was to highlight the the existence of forces acting at a distance and not only by contact, a thesis defended by Descartes. | | In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky was going to to unleash one of the most virulent controversies of the 20th century. "Heretics" in Astronomy (basecamp.com)
