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Yep. 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 se
by bduerst 5y ago
Yep. 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.