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Originally Posted by Achilles
So many fail to understand my unique genius. I can only imagine this is what Copernicus must have been feeling in his cold, dark cell all those centuries ago.
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For one thing, he wasn't imprisoned for holding beliefs about heliocentrism. He was imprisoned because he decided to insult the Pope in his book upon the topic.
For another thing, that wasn't Copernicus, that was Galileo.