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Earth as the centre of the universe (The)

Gabriel Gohau is a historian at the REHSEIS laboratory in Paris and relates our ancestors' representation of our planet, its oceans, its sky and its volcanoes.
From Aristotle, four centuries BC, to Leonardo da Vinci, in the 15th century, the Earth hardly changed in scholars' minds. It was unthinkable that it was anywhere but the centre of the world. What discoveries have changed certainties?

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