It survived as the working model twenty-five times longer than the four hundred years we’ve understood the Earth goes around the Sun.
Is it excessive nitpicking to point out that the daily disappearance and reappearance of the Sun has to do with the Earth’s rotation on its axis, not its rotation about the Sun? (Probably not, as the first comment on Parkin’s blog posting points out the same.)
Is it excessive nitpicking to note that not only did he misuse the word “ultimate”, he used it to mean basically the opposite of what it actually means?
Is it excessive nitpicking to point out that the daily disappearance and reappearance of the Sun has to do with the Earth’s rotation on its axis, not its rotation about the Sun? (Probably not, as the first comment on Parkin’s blog posting points out the same.)
Is it excessive nitpicking to note that not only did he misuse the word “ultimate”, he used it to mean basically the opposite of what it actually means?
No. Thank you for inspiring me to look up the word and learn its true meaning.