| Re: What if: the Church had NOT condemned Galileo |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Timothy MurphyTimothy Murphy Date: Sep 4, 2008 04:18
Androcles wrote:
> The Moon goes around the Earth, doesn't it? So why not the Sun too?
> Seems to me that the cardinals had a pretty good case. Then along
> comes Galileo, who agrees with Copernicus, and tells a fifty- or
> sixty-year-old that what he's believed all is life is wrong and wonders
> why they kick him in the goolies.
I'm pretty sure it was Galileo's impertinence rather than his views
that got him into trouble with the Pope,
who had been an admirer of Galileo.
I doubt if the Pope cared much one way or the other
about the relative motion of the earth and the sun.
Incidentally, Galileo was lucky to live in a time and place
where people like him who annoyed their betters
did not find their life-span greatly shortened.
I wonder what would have happened to Newton
if he had expressed his religious views openly?
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Timothy Murphy
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