Title: Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right Source:
Way Out There URL Source:[None] Published:Sep 14, 2010 Author:Assorted Wingnuts Post Date:2010-09-14 20:00:56 by Skip Intro Keywords:None Views:20970 Comments:35
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It is a myth that Galileo waged a war of science against dogma. Frankly, there were more scientific problems with heliocentrism at the time than just adding more epicycles to the Ptolemaic system.
Galileo was persecuted by the Church for being an asshole. And it wasn't really very much of a "persecution."
From publication until about 1700, few astronomers were convinced by the Copernican system, though the book was relatively widely circulated (around 500 copies of the first and second editions have survived, which is a large number by the scientific standards of the time).
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Galileo died before 1600 and contemporary scientists in 1700, were still, by and large, not impressed by heliocentrism.
From publication until about 1700, few astronomers were convinced by the Copernican system, though the book was relatively widely circulated (around 500 copies of the first and second editions have survived, which is a large number by the scientific standards of the time).
ROFLMAO...what happened to Galileo barely a generation before, YA DICKHEAD? HE DIED UNDER HOUSE ARREST.
Ya ***think*** they wanted to share his fate?
Please, Padlock...I'm not SOD. I'm not Joe Snuffy. I'm not Otis.
You are completely clueless as to the as to the scientific problems with accepting heliocentrism at that rime.
Putting aside the issue that you don't even know when Galileo died, dickhead, the "problem" can be summed up in three words: The Catholic Church. By 1700, the Renaissance, then the Age of Reason then the Enlightenment had successfully supplanted the moronics perpetrated by religion and Scientists were able to go about their work without be shackled for it...unless they were female or black...
The Catholic Church. By 1700, the Renaissance, then the Age of Reason then the Enlightenment had successfully supplanted the moronics perpetrated by religion and Scientists
You can't present the first bit of evidence that the Church ever prosecuted anybody because of their scientific belief in heliocentrism.
I won't say the church wasn't too involved in government at the time, but galieo was punished for being a dick, not for science, sort of like you.