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We would be exactly where we are since Galileo didn't do that much to prove the heliocentric model. Galileo also wasn't jailed for the heliocentric model, Gali
by ecshafer 5y ago
We would be exactly where we are since Galileo didn't do that much to prove the heliocentric model.
Galileo also wasn't jailed for the heliocentric model, Galileo was jailed for writing a book, where The Pope was the stand in character for an idiot, overtly. And while we are more liberal, at the time insulting the pope in published material, in Italy, was a rather poor choice.
- bduerst 5y agoYep. Galileo got himself into trouble not for his work on heliocentricity, but for publicly attacking an authority figure in the church. It's interesting to see how we today project our science/fundamentalism schism onto culture of the past, when in reality, there wasn't that much of a dichotomy before the Scopes trial in the 1930s.
- theknocker 5y agoFYI you obviously know virtually nothing at all about Galileo.
- cronix 5y agoYou are making a pedantic argument to a philosophical point. Extrapolate the concepts.