Posted on 02/23/2019 4:49:34 PM PST by pcottraux
I saw Galileo’s finger preserved in a jar in Florence (Italy, not SC).
I heard that might be Scaramouche’s thing, but you’d have to ask him.
Real life or fantasy???
I love history when it has been modified, revised and sanitized.
The Heliocentric solar system was discovered by Aristarchos in 200BC. Copernicus and Galileo only made it popular in the Renaissance.
I don’t know.... Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see.
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter....
This thread is fine where it is.
If it was in the Religion Forum, your post would have to be removed.
I am not impressed by this piece. Anyone who doesn’t know who Galileo was and can’t keep him straight from Giordano Bruno who actually was burned at the stake isn’t qualified to say anything about the true story of anybody. And secondly it’s been 600 years so most of it is hearsay and not admissible in court. And thirdly it resembles a huge wall of words which you can’t be sure are even true since a glaring error in the very beginning throws off any sense of credibility. And it’s too long. And we know how bad Trump is but let’s stick to his deeds and not the words he is quoted as saying. Same with Galileo.
Just to be clear, the center of the universe is precisely where I am at any given moment. Thank you.
Galileo merely used existing tech (lenses) to recreate something that had long been in use - the telescope which dates back at least to Greek times possibly to Old Kingdom Egypt.
His actual crime was speaking out in a time when the Church was vehemently anti-science and had a vested interest in its particular meme of the Universe.
You start out with a false statement. He was never burned. Not even a little bit.
He was imprisoned, and then given house arrest.
“Since these scriptures are in poetic books, Christians today have no trouble interpreting them as mere expressions by ancient people with limited knowledge of the cosmos”
Christians today have been blinded. The Bible is a flat earth book from Genesis to Revelation.
"...The Catholic church, threatened by this, had him arrested and burned at the stake until he recanted his findings...."
There is no historical document that asserts that Galileo was ever burned at the stake, even partially. His inquisition was held in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which is about half a block from the Pantheon. There's a lovely Michelangelo statue of Jesus on the Altar, and an obelisk on the back of an elephant done by Bernini out front. Catholics don't as a rule light bonfires to roast even heretics inside of a church. It wasn't the theory of heliocentricity that put Galileo's butt in a crack, it was his preaching that heliocentricity was a fact that contradicted the Bible. He'd have got by fine, as Copernicus did, if he just had taught that it was scientific "theory" and refrained from insisting that it was a "fact" that contradicted the divinity of the Bible.
A pity, as the earth is demonstrably not flat. What now?
You start out with a false statement. He was never burned. Not even a little bit.
am not impressed by this piece. Anyone who doesn’t know who Galileo was and can’t keep him straight from Giordano Bruno who actually was burned at the stake isn’t qualified to say anything about the true story of anybody. And secondly it’s been 600 years so most of it is hearsay and not admissible in court. And thirdly it resembles a huge wall of words which you can’t be sure are even true since a glaring error in the very beginning throws off any sense of credibility.
Hmmm...maybe you guys should read a post in its entirety before judging it? Just sayin'...
*Fist pump*
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