>Galileo vs. The Church

Eduardo G. Moros (moros@castor.wustl.edu)
Mon, 05 Jan 1998 17:15:37 -0600

Searching the web for this topic a long time ago I found the following posts.
I don't know how accurate they are but they are a good place to start w/o much effort.

Salutis

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/pub/soc.religion.christian/faq/galileo

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/pub/soc.religion.christian/others/galileo

> Galileo vs. The Church
>
> Chuck Noren (noren@inetnow.net)
> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:45:10 -0500 (EST)
>
> > Galileo is a warning.
>
> I'm jumping in on the middle on a conversation and pulling
> it out of context.
>
> I am wondering if there are some historians out there who can
> comment on this. From what I heard, Galileo, when he first published
> his theories about the Solar System, the Church largly ignored him.
> It was some secular philosophers/scientists who were upset about
> the theory and activily enlisted the aide of Rome to come down on
> Galileo. I have not read historical sources on this so I don't know
> if this is urban legend. Has someone studied the historical details
> of the history of the conflict and could comment on this?
>
> -Chuck