The Flags are fabulous, congratulations.
I might just throw, if not a hat, a beret, into the ring regarding cosmology.
I imagine that the common people don't particularly think a great deal about such things; even though the world is farther advanced than OTL at the comparable date, it certainly seems, in Rhomania at least, that the church is so tied to education and the scientific disciplines are structured in such a manner that such things aren't part of the average peasant or workers education.
That being said, in educated circles I imagine that Heliocentrism has been widely adopted, in fact I don't see why it should have been as great an issue as it was in OTL (not that it was even really an issue, as far as I understand any controversy was mostly blown up by politics and disobedience of the papacy) unless it came from outside and the Uniate church has a particularly strong view regarding the physical heavens as its domain entirely.
Precise astronomical observation is essential for maintaining the calendar, particularly as I believe there has not been a change in calendars yet and technologically ATL should have observed planetary motion at least in the 16th century. I imagine that Heliocentrism had been growing in support since the early 16th century but was only conclusively proven by the observations of, say a Galician monk from some high mountain monastery in the early 1700s by observing the parallax of 61 Cygni, Vega and Alpha Centauri. Following that I imagine that the only debate is as to whether the sun is the centre of the universe or not. THough this is probably obvious, the increased influence of the comparatively mystical Uniate church may have delayed this question so that it remains unanswered as of the present, though observation of galaxies should definitively prove it soon.
Just a few thoughts.
I might just throw, if not a hat, a beret, into the ring regarding cosmology.
I imagine that the common people don't particularly think a great deal about such things; even though the world is farther advanced than OTL at the comparable date, it certainly seems, in Rhomania at least, that the church is so tied to education and the scientific disciplines are structured in such a manner that such things aren't part of the average peasant or workers education.
That being said, in educated circles I imagine that Heliocentrism has been widely adopted, in fact I don't see why it should have been as great an issue as it was in OTL (not that it was even really an issue, as far as I understand any controversy was mostly blown up by politics and disobedience of the papacy) unless it came from outside and the Uniate church has a particularly strong view regarding the physical heavens as its domain entirely.
Precise astronomical observation is essential for maintaining the calendar, particularly as I believe there has not been a change in calendars yet and technologically ATL should have observed planetary motion at least in the 16th century. I imagine that Heliocentrism had been growing in support since the early 16th century but was only conclusively proven by the observations of, say a Galician monk from some high mountain monastery in the early 1700s by observing the parallax of 61 Cygni, Vega and Alpha Centauri. Following that I imagine that the only debate is as to whether the sun is the centre of the universe or not. THough this is probably obvious, the increased influence of the comparatively mystical Uniate church may have delayed this question so that it remains unanswered as of the present, though observation of galaxies should definitively prove it soon.
Just a few thoughts.
