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What about the Orthodox? "The Church" is really an anachronism. You are speaking of the Roman church which is about only half of Christianity at the time: West
by jnordwick 10y ago
What about the Orthodox?
"The Church" is really an anachronism. You are speaking of the Roman church which is about only half of Christianity at the time: Western Europe.
What about the other half of the Church? Eastern Europe, Russia, Asian, Norther Africa, the Middle East, Greece?
How did they receive Galileo?
I've always been fascinated by this total amnesia over the Orthodox Church as if it didn't exist or was only a few percent.
- whybroke 10y agoAnd the necessary next question: how fast did ideas travel at the time given technical, linguistic and cultural borders. I'd love to know the first mention of Galileo's (or Copernicus') ideas in Moscow, Terran, Mumbai, Mexico City, Beijing etc
- jcranmer 10y agoActually, given the time frame, focusing on the Catholic church is already meaningless in Western Europe. The Reformation was already well underway, indeed Galileo was outspoken during the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The Lutheran church was very anti-Copernican; Martin Luther himself condemned it as heresy 80 years before the Galileo affair.