damnnnit… I spelled Catholic wrong again…
I am surely going to hell…
son of a…
absoul, do you get all your history from Monty Python??
Galileo wasn’t really that persecuted. Joseph Finn’s post was accurate.
YOU look it up.
–John
Here is the link that supports you…
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/images/galileo.5.html
I escpecially enjoyed this excerpt…
On 22 June 1633 Galileo was forced to kneel in front of the Inquisition and recant his belief in the Copernican planetary system and the motion of the Earth. He was condemned to life imprisonment, ostensibly for having disobeyed a 1616 injunction by Cardinal Bellarmino “…not to defend or teach the Copernican doctrine…”. The very next day the sentence was commuted to perpetual house arrest, which was rigidly upheld to the end of Galileo’s life. Galileo’s Dialogue was also put on the Index of Prohibited Books, together with the books by Copernicus and Kepler treating of the heliocentric system, where they all remained until 1835. Only in 1992 did the Roman catholic Church formally admitted to having erred in dealing with Galileo.
We had a small discrepency about ‘house arrest’.
Imagine what the neighbors thought.
hand covers mouth
EEeeeeeeewwwwwwwww…
Actually, your quote come from this page:
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/images/trial.html
Another interesting point from that page is:
absoul said:
I have no idea what the hell this means.
–John
very good!
I had just started searching and that was the first link I could find to support my theorms.
Although this link does support the fact that he had to recant his beliefs and was held against his will… hmmmm thats about it!
absoul said:
quote:
We had a small discrepency about ‘house arrest’.
Imagine what the neighbors thought.
hand covers mouth
EEeeeeeeewwwwwwwww…
I have no idea what the hell this means.
He was held against his will for his beliefs and teachings.
He was forced to live inside his dwelling, without the possiblity of teaching again. I am very sarcastic. I took the veiw of his neighbors seeing him and saying "he must be completely wrong because the government (church) says he is. -neighbors meaning : common persons-