For no reasonable mind can assume that heavenly bodies that may be far more magnificent than ours would not bear upon them creatures similar or even superior to those upon our human Earth. There are also numberless Earths circling around their suns, no worse and no less than this globe of ours. In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets we see only the suns because they give light the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.De l'Infinito, Universo, e Mondi ( On the Infinite Universe and Worlds).La Cena de le Ceneri ( The Ash Wednesday Supper).Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italy (Naples) How heliocentrism deals with retrograde motion. Do you see it moving? Prove to me that the Earth is not fixed.) (Before you laugh at these "foolish people", look at the ground. No observational evidence that the Earth moved, therefore it was not taken seriously.It did not work as well as Ptolemy's geocentric system, which was at the time, more accurate.
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