This was the idea that the earth was not the center of the universe, but the sun was. ... "Galileo Galilei is often called "the first scientist"," (Galileo Galilei: Super Scientist in History http://www.llnl.gov/llnl06news/Community/super_science_newsletter/) for all the work he did and because, he was on the front line of new and advanced technology paving the way for others to come. ... "Galileo's discoveries were very controversial, as they indicated that the Earth was not the center of the Universe: Venus orbited the Sun, small moons orbited Jupiter, and thus, he argued, it was more n...

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Carson then discusses the history of the tides and how they affect the earth and its inhabitants. ... Carson also gives some fundamental facts to back up her point:The tides are a response to the mobile waters of the ocean to the pull of the moon and the more distant sun? ... Carson's next representation of the concept of big is used in the following:If the history of the earth's tides should one day be written by some observer of the universe, it would no doubt be said that they reached their greatest grandeur and power in the younger days of earth? ...

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