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Behold the grand, glittering blunder of Galileo Galilei! In a stroke of audacious theater, he aimed to use the rhythmic heaving of the oceans as the ultimate proof that the Earth whirls around the Sun. His proof crumbled—the Moon, not the Earth's spin, is the true solution. Yet while he lost the battle for the Copernican system, but he won the war for the waves, shattering the ancient idea of a static universe in the process!

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