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The stimuli were Galileo Galilei’s lunar observations and championing of heliocentricism, and the encounters of imperial voyagers with the lands and peoples of the Americas.

From Nature • Jul. 8, 2019

In the final analysis, talking and listening began the revolution that�like heliocentricism and evolution�placed man a lot lower than the angels.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the first place the "purposefulness" of the movements of the planets is not affected in the very least by the question of heliocentricism.

From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir