“Before I start my grim tale I must explain a couple of things,” said Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges, “or you will be confused.” He scratched his belly and drank some beer. “In your readings, Peter, you may have heard of the theory of Nicolaus Copernicus.” “From his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, or ‘On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres’,” said Blue Peter, “in which he coyly suggested that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe.” “Indeed, and he was right, and that cove Newton, whom I saw at Cambridge but never spoke to, put the whole thing square by identifying gravity - the force that makes the apple fall and the cannonball curve in its flight - with the force which holds the moons and planets on their courses,” said the Captain. “Furthermore, you may have heard of the ideas of the Italian monk Giordano Bruno.” “I was thinking of him only this morning, and how I was not unduly surprised that the Congregation of the Holy Office of the Inquisition tied him to a stake and burned him, by way of a critical appraisal of his work.”
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