It's amazing what you can find on Google Earth

By Mathew Dickerson
September 23 2019 - 6:30am
What can you see?: Google Earth has provided solutions to several crime puzzles.
What can you see?: Google Earth has provided solutions to several crime puzzles.

As I ride my e-scooter through Warsaw and past the bronze statue of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, I start to wonder what he would make of one of our modern conveniences. As Alistair Crombie, the Australian science historian, once noted, Copernicus was "the supreme example of a man who revolutionised science by looking at the old facts in a new way."

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