Word: simplicio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galileo made it plain that his sympathies were with the character upholding the Copernican view, a know-it-all who disdainfully dismissed his opponents. He made Ptolemy's advocate sound like a simpleton, even giving him the name Simplicio. Into Simplicio's mouth went some of the arguments made by Pope Urban against the Copernican world...