Giovanni Battista Riccioli

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Chronicled events

1. 1651·​Riccioli Weighs the Arguments
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   The Earth stands still at the center. The Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn roughly circle it, and Mercury, Venus, and Mars go around the Sun on Kepler’s ellipses, so they fit Tycho’s measurements.