Once you look at the moon through a telescope, there’s no going back. Have you read Galileo’s writings?
You wrote:
“Have you read Galileo’s writings?”
Some, but not all. And once you have read his writings, you realize why he got into trouble with the tribunal. He sought to interpret scripture in a way that suited him and his theories. As someone who claimed to be Catholic, that was bound to get him in trouble sooner or later.
Some of 'em, and when I read the Dialogue the impression that I got was that he was baiting the Church, and I got that impression when I was not only not Catholic but pretty anti-Catholic.
AND I've read the Timaeus, and some Copernicus and some Tycho Brahe -- and some Newton and some Einstein.
Have you?
lew
galileo claimed the sun was stationary. FALSE
he claimed that planets revolve around the sun
in circular orbits. FALSE
Scientists knew that if the Corperican model were correct, that they would observe a parallax effect when viewing stars, yet they did not. Why was that?