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Description acceptable. A Disputation by Pico della Mirandola sparked the development of this idea according to a history of it by Robert Westman, which also describes its selective “Wittenberg Interpretation.” Proponents of this idea derisively named their opponents the “Pigeon League” after a philosopher who advanced an early form of the “tower argument” against it. A dialogue was initially allowed to be published as long as it didn’t explicitly endorse this idea, but was censored for presenting too strong of an argument and for naming one character after a (*) 6th-century neoplatonist. The character Salviati advances this idea in a dialogue featuring the intelligent layman Saredo and the Aristotelian Simplicio. A 1543 work advancing this idea initiated the first paradigm shift listed by Thomas Kuhn. For 10 points, the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems discusses what idea proposed by Copernicus? ■END■
ANSWER: heliocentrism [accept descriptions of the idea that the Sun is at the center of the universe or Solar System; accept descriptions of the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun; accept descriptions of the Galilean or Copernican worldview; prompt on descriptions of the Earth moving] (Westman’s book is called The Copernican Question. The “Pigeon League” was named after Lodovico delle Colombe.)
<FW, Philosophy (Early Modern)>
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