Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Weekly Wikipedia Find: E pur si muove!

And yet it moves. Galileo is one of the world's all-time badasses, enshrined in the seventh circle of the hall of fame and these were his words, albeit in Italian: E pur si muove! The Roman Catholic Church of the seventeenth century was rather geocentric in its views of the cosmos, see, and its Inquisition into heresy forced Signor Galileo Galilei to recant his opposing belief that the Earth moved around the Sun against penalty of death and these words were his to mutter, maybe only in legend and unheard, but to hold the truth of heliocentrism.


Wikipedia by Week
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One:
Lolita fashion

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