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The Great Debate, also called the Shapley–Curtis Debate, was held on 26 April 1920 at the U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C. between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis. It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the universe. Shapley believed that these nebulae were relatively small and lay within the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy, while Curtis held that they were in fact independent galaxies, implying that they were exceedingly large and distant. A year later the two sides of the debate were presented and expanded on in independent technical papers under the title "The Scale of the Universe".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)
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Link in episode "Thomas Henry Huxley": https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/great-debate
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Candace Owens vs Andrew Wilson: The Great Debate.
Candace Owens vs Andrew Wilson: The Great Debate. · 2026-08-14
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Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate · 2014-05-26
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Link in episode "Thomas Henry Huxley": https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/great-debate
Thomas Henry Huxley · 2026-07-29
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2026-08-14 · Candace · via mentioned · 0.42
Candace Owens vs Andrew Wilson: The Great Debate.
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2026-07-29 · Stuff You Missed in History Class · via mentioned · 0.45
Link in episode "Thomas Henry Huxley": https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/great-debate
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2026-07-29 · Stuff You Missed in History Class · via references · 0.38
Link in episode "Thomas Henry Huxley": https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/great-debate
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2014-05-26 · EconTalk · via authored · 0.62
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author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke
author of The Great Debate
author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke
author of The Great Debate
author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke
Link in episode "Thomas Henry Huxley": https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/great-debate
Candace Owens vs Andrew Wilson: The Great Debate.
Link in episode "Thomas Henry Huxley": https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/great-debate