----- Original Message ----- From: Mauro Lacy <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:59 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Want to do some real astronomy?
> > What I'm saying is this: even as early as in Copernicus times, the > doorwas open, so to speak, for a consideration of the movements of > the Sun > as real(i.e. proper), but somehow in the course of history, that door > was closed or forgotten, and we started to think about the Sun as > fixed,for all practical purposes. And we still do this today, for all > practical, cultural, and even scientific and astronomical purposes. Who is 'we'? I think every astronomer alive today knows that the sun is a star and it moves around the centre of the milky way galaxy and that the centre of the milky way is moving relative to other galaxies. Harry > That must and will change in the future; we should start to think > aboutthe movement of the Sun as a real one, in the same way as we > considertoday the movements of the Moon and Earth as proper. > > Mauro > >
