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Letter: Wrong heretic

Published 21 January 2009

From Robert Scopes

Memo to Steve Jones: it was Copernicus who finally convinced the world of the real reason why the sun rises every morning, a century before Galileo (20/27 December 2008, p 71).

Koroit, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2692 published 24 January 2009

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