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.
a. Genesis.
b. Jonah.
c. Ezekiel.
d. Joshua.
d. Joshua.
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