Page 13 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Copernicus demolished Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
the Earth-centered model of the universe
proposed by Ptolemy and adopted by the Catholic Church. The new model portrayed the Earth
as merely a part of the Solar System.

all. The smoke coming from a burning object was thought to be
expulsion of phlogiston from it, as the burning material shrank
and weakened. It was also believed that when burning material
was smothered, it hindered the expulsion of phlogiston, and so

the fire went out. But in time it was observed that metals did
not shrink or weaken as they burned, and so certain doubts
grew up about phlogiston's reality.

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