As a proponent of Copernican heliocentrism, Galileo seemed to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible's Book of ___________, in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day.

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The passage in question is found in the Book of Joshua, specifically Joshua 10:13, where it is said that the sun stood still in the sky to allow the Israelites more time to defeat their enemies. This was seen as contradictory to the heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus and supported by Galileo, which posits that the Earth revolves around the Sun, not the other way around.

As a Proponent of Copernican Heliocentrism, Galileo Seemed to Contradict