>On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:40:03 UTC, "Rod Speed" gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>> John Fields austininstruments.com> wrote

>>> Rod Speed gmail.com> wrote

>>>> John Fields austininstruments.com> wrote

>>

>>>>> And only a few years ago admitted that Geocentrism was wrong.

>>

>>>> No they didnt. They actually admitted that they treated Galileo badly at that time.

>>

>>> At the heart of the bad treatment was Galileo's recalcitrance
>>> in recanting his support of Copernicus' heliocentric system.

>>
>> Yes, but even those fools had managed to work out that the
>> earth did indeed revolve around the sun LONG before that
>> most recent admission of how badly Galileo had been treated.
>>

>>> In the end, though, the church broke him and he did recant, so
>>> their recent admission of guilt in treating him badly was tantamount
>>> to their accepting Copernicus's geocentric system as true.

>>
>> Yes, but even those fools had managed to work out that the
>> earth did indeed revolve around the sun LONG before that
>> most recent admission of how badly Galileo had been treated.

>
>It was not in dispute in 1822, when they *finally* *completely* cleared
>Galileo's work for unrestricted publication; before that, when they made
>some moves in that direction, it's much less clear, despite frequent
>claims that hte Church had it all settled in 1700-whatever.
>
>Department of satirical prophecy: Galileo wrote a note in the margin of a
>copy of the Dialogue that the theologians should take care, because later
>on it might be decided that Earth really does move, and then the ones
>holding to the old view might have to be persecuted as heretics! So, in
>1822, there was a stubborn censor who would not clear the work for
>publication, and the Holy Office (Inquisition) had to threaten him!
>
>[Sorry about the two screamers, but this is just too much fun.]
>
>See Annibale Fantoli, "Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church", p.
>357. Published by the Vatican Observatory, by the way.
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>