Geocentric model sun (heliocentricism), while a further 9% claimed not to know. Polls conducted by Gallup in the 1990s found that 16% of Germans, 18% of Americans and 19% of Britons hold that the Sun revolves around the Earth. A study conducted in 2005 by Jon D. Miller of Northwestern University, an expert in the public understanding of science and technology, found that about 20%, or one in five, of American adults believe that the Sun orbits the Earth. According to 2011 VTSIOM poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits the Earth. The famous Galileo affair pitted the geocentric model
Central Township, Perry County, Missouri Central Township, Perry County, Missouri Central Township is one of the eight townships located in Perry County, Missouri, in the United States of America. Central Township is located in the central part of Perry County, and hence so named. The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) lists five townships name "Central", including this one, in various counties of Missouri. The first European settlers in what is now Central Township arrived in 1800 and were Kentuckians who laid down farms around "The Barrens". They had called their home in Kentucky "The Barrens", a term used extensively to describe land which combines some