Wirt Atmar writes

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Just a minor correction to Tegmark's comments. What Giordano Bruno wrote
was:

"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in
a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun.
Living
beings inhabit these worlds."

The logical extrapolation that Bruno made from his suppositions was the
million points of light in the night sky, which is our Heavens, are
suns,
just as
our star is a sun, and that to the inhabitants of those remote planets,
we are
a part of their Heaven -- and clearly our Earth is no Paradise. If so,
where
then is Paradise to exist?
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The "seven" planets revolve around the sun.  Bruno was killed on Feb 19,
1600.  Uranus was discovered by the British astronomer William Herschel
on March 13, 1781.  Did Bruno and other scientists of the time think the
moon revolved around the sun and not the earth?  If not, what was the
seventh planet in 1600?

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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