It wasn't until 1616 when Galileo began working on theological interpretations to support his model that the Inquisition had investigated him. They cited the Council of Trent and declared that he was not qualified to decipher meaning in the bible, and that Heliocentrism was to be presented as a Hypothesis not a fact backed by current science or the word of god.
Galileo took the Inquisition's advice to make arguments for his model, but continued to treat his model as fact, and in his book about the subject he had a fool who spoke in quotes from Pope Urban act as an antagonist against scientific progress. instigating a second investigation and his eventual house arrest for heresy and violating his prior agreement with the inquisition.
by MourningWallaby
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People often look at it as discovery versus ignorance. Fewer look at it as a power struggle.
Personally, I’ve never seen it presented as a new discovery by Galileo when the subject is taught, but rather as a power struggle as you put it. Forcing heliocentrists to keep their findings in the realm of theory was de facto censorship of their ideas.
Honestly the most damning point against this idea is that there is no observable parabolic shift in the stars when the earth rotates around the sun, and that it would also mean the sun would have to be millions of times more massive than the earth, and that the stars in the sky would therefore have to be billions of miles away or more. Which none of that would compute. It would break math and defy human comprehension.
I love how people consistently ignore the fact that Galileo did bring new evidence.
This includes observations of planets having phases like the moon, variation in the apparent size of planets, and Jupiter with its moons as an example miniature solar system. Taken with the prexisting knowledge from how eclipses work of the relative sizes and distances of the sun and moon, the church ended up falsifying evidence during the heresy trial.
This is true! Gallileo didn’t get in trouble for daring to tell the truth, he got in trouble for being an unpopular troll and insulting the church and the pope over and over again. The Church wasn’t that invested in the exact structure of the solar system and had entertained heliocentric ideas for centuries, and didn’t outright dismiss or refute the science.
So Galileo wasn’t persecuted… he was just antagonistic and kinda a dick?
Now I’m wondering if the tale of him being called a heretic “just” for having a new (correct) idea is more popular in the Anglophone world. Like as anti Catholic propaganda. Does anyone know how it’s taught in Catholic and other countries?
BuT ThE cHuRcH hAtEd ScIenCe!!!!
Either way religious fanatic thought police are never in the right and his jailing is an example of the evils of organized religion.
>be me
>have cool planet theory
>new Pope gives thumbs up and funding to investigate
>make book
>portray the Pope and my benefactor as an idiot in the book and treat my theory as fact
>they get insulted by this
How could this happen to me???