Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Galileo and His Condemnation
The Greek philosopher Pythagoras (?. Rc. 555) is traditionally said to have taught, on the contrary, that the earth, stars, and even the sun itself, were all moving bodies which revolved round a common centre called the central fire; but his teaching obtained no currency or acceptance.
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