George Duke wrote on Mon, May 4, 2009 05:12 PM EDT:
Now the dissenting view in Copernican-Galilean astronomy [metaphorically to
do with Chess, and unfortunately cv artwork pandered as games, also] was once the majority:
''There are seven windows in the head, two nostrils, two eyes, two ears,
and a mouth; so in the heavens there are two favourable stars, two
unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury [the Bishop] alone undecided and
indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena, such as the seven
metals, which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of
planets is necessarily seven.'' --Francesco Sizzi in argument against
Galileo's discovery of the satellites of Jupiter
