Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...explanation of lunar eclipses and a sound argument for the spherical shape of the earth...Jupiter and the phases of Venus were persuasive evidence for the Copernican cosmology...of the World (1632) was an eloquent argument for the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic...