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Flat Earth Theory / Re: How is the story of Galileo explained
« on: May 25, 2019, 01:07:23 AM »Hi guys, I would really love more information on the wiki about more recent historical figures who were involved in building the traditional western model of the universe. There is information about Aristotles arguments and their counters. Why is Aristotle the only one mentioned?No.
Galileo dedicated his life to demonstrating that the Earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa. He spent the last years of his life imprisoned due to blasphemy.
This is perhaps the most recurring motif, and yet it is entirely untrue. Galileo was treated by the church as a celebrity. When summoned by the Inquisition, he was housed in the grand Medici Villa in Rome. He attended receptions with the Pope and leading cardinals. Even after he was found guilty, he was first housed in a magnificent Episcopal palace and then placed under "house arrest" although he was permitted to visit his daughters in a nearby convent and to continue publishing scientific papers.
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/controversy/galileo/debunking-the-galileo-myth.html
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There was great risk involved in this for him. Even before him, even those thinkers who believed in a geocentric universe still believed the Earth to be round and dedicated their life to this science (Kepler, for example).There were also great thinkers who disagreed with Kepler and Galileo and were geocentrists (see Tycho Brahe.)
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Is it true that these incredibly intelligent and dedicated thinkers could not figure out the Earth was not in fact round. What does the Flat Earth Society make of these individuals? They were SIMPLY wildly wrong? With everything that was at stake?The controversy was about geocentrism vs. heliocentrism not RE vs. FE. And what matters is what the evidence says, not the opinions of those who are deemed to be great minds.