Copernicus displaced man and the earth from the center of the universe. The mobility of the earth became linked with moral relativity…
…In this preface, which appeared along with Andreas Osiander’s, Copernicus gave his reasons for having attempted to reform astronomy by thinking about the motion of the earth. “I should like your holiness to know,” he declares, “that I was induced to think of a method of computing the motions of the spheres by nothing else than the knowledge that mathematicians are inconsistent in these investigations.”
—“The Moon presented a special math problem for the construction of the heliocentricity model. The only way to make the Moon fit in with the other assumptions was to reverse its direction from that of what everyone who has ever lived has seen it go. The math model couldn’t just stop the Moon like it did the Sun, that wouldn’t work. And it couldn’t let it continue to go East to West as we see it go, either at the same speed or at a different speed. The only option was to reverse its observed East to West direction and change its speed from about 64,000 miles an hour to about 2,200 miles an hour. This reversal along with the change in speed were unavoidable assumptions that needed to be adopted if the model was to have a chance of mimicking reality.” -Bernard Brauer—Read More:http://inpursuitofhappiness.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/does-the-earth-really-rotate-around-the-sun/
Their computations are inexact and inconsistent with the hypotheses; their mathematical devices are clumsy, and they cannot make the universe a coherent whole. Long reflection convinced Copernicus, he said, that it was not right to abandon the attempt to find a true system, and, good humanist that he was, he read the ancients “to seek out whether any of them had ever supposed that the motions of the spheres were other than those demanded by the mathematical schools.”
Finding that there had indeed been Greek astronomers who had taught the mobility of the earth- he does not seem to have known the late medieval speculators like Nicole Oresme and Nicholas of Cusa-he ventured, he says, to try its effect upon astronomy. And he said it offered a”sound explanation,” for if the earth were taken to be in motion, then the whole universe seemed to fall into a harmonious whole, even though it was necessary to assume that this universe was far higher than had previously been thought.( to be continued)…
—Keep in mind that a rotating, orbiting earth is not counted as a mere hypothesis or even a theory anywhere in the world today. Oh no. Rather, this concept is an unquestioned ‘truth'; an established ‘fact’ in all books and other media everywhere, church media included. Copernicanism, in short, is a concept that is protected in a bunker under a 50 foot thick ceiling of solid ‘scientific’ concrete. It is meant to be impregnable. It is a concept that has become ensconced in men’s minds as the indestructible cornerstone of enlightened modern man’s knowledge. Virtually all people everywhere have been taught to believe – and do believe – that this concept is based on objective science and dispassionate secular reasoning.” -Marshall Hall, “Exposing the Copernican Deception”—Read More:http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2011/11/earth-is-not-moving.html
ADDENDUM:
(see link at end)…He ( Martin Luther) rejected some of the views of some of his professors at Erfurt. He denied that God resided in the outermost sphere, the twelfth heaven, because he believed that God is omnipresent. For the same reason he did not take literally the Scripture that the ascended Christ sat down at the right hand of the Father.
Luther’s view of the Copernican theory was certainly not a reactionary one for his day. After all, there was no direct evidence for the Copernican theory in 1539. According to Edwin Burtt…
It is safe to say that even had there been no religious scruples whatever against the Copernican astronomy, sensible men all over Europe, especially the most empirically minded, would have pronounced it a wild appeal to accept the premature fruits of an uncontrolled imagination, in preference to the solid inductions, built up gradually through the ages, of men’s confirmed sense experience… Contemporary empiricists, had they lived in the 16th century, would have been the first to scoff out of court the new philosophy of the universe.
Genuine evidence for the Copernican system had to wait until the work of Johannes Kepler and Galileo in the early seventeenth century. Acceptance or rejection of the system before that time had to be based on nonscientific grounds, such as mathematical simplicity. Herbert Butterfield [28] dates the breakdown of the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system from the time when Galileo (circa 1600) formulated the principle of inertia. This principle, which states that a body moving with constant velocity continues to move with constant velocity unless acted on by an external force, helped to explain why everything would not fall off the earth if it were in motion. Read More:="http://www.leaderu.com/science/kobe.html">http://www.leaderu.com/science/kobe.html
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