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Well, but they did use telescopes. One jesuit even discovered a comet, and it did not show parallax… The jesuits did wrong but were not silly.
by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, but they did use telescopes. One jesuit even discovered a comet, and it did not show parallax… The jesuits did wrong but were not silly.
- eternalban 4y agoOf course they did. There is no reason to assume people were stupid [in the past] and just got smart overnight. These were smart people struggling with a paradigm shift that would upset almost all their theoretical apple carts. It was an epistomelogical crisis but not of the spiritual flavor as it has been alleged.