Don't forget that the Earth is the center of the universe. The apology for the persecution surrounding that one only came out a couple decades ago. You know, only several centuries late.
It wasn't that be was a Copernican that got Galileo in trouble it was the he tried to co-opt scriptural arguments to prove it and force the church to change doctrine.
The Jesuits were working away on heliocentrism but they kept away from religious arguments about it
Don't forget that the Earth is the center of the universe. The apology for the persecution surrounding that one only came out a couple decades ago. You know, only several centuries late.
The church gets a bad rap for that one.
It wasn't that be was a Copernican that got Galileo in trouble it was the he tried to co-opt scriptural arguments to prove it and force the church to change doctrine.
The Jesuits were working away on heliocentrism but they kept away from religious arguments about it