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There is a wonderful (if lengthy) takedown of the "Brave scientist Galileo vs Catholic Church" myth here: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/9-great-ptolemaic-
by geye1234 3y ago
There is a wonderful (if lengthy) takedown of the "Brave scientist Galileo vs Catholic Church" myth here: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/9-great-ptolemaic-smackdown-from.html http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/9-great-ptolemaic-smackd...
- tim333 3y agoThey didn't do very well by Giordano Bruno though who proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets and got burned at the stake.
- geye1234 3y agoI'm a bit late responding to this, but I believe this is false, and that his cosmological beliefs had nothing to do with his fate: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-truth-about-giordano-bruno https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-truth-about-giordano-bru...