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Expand The Galileo Affair
the church didn't think the earth was the center of the universe?
catholic galileo myth 11/08/2005 07:19
The most striking point about the whole affair is that until Galileo forced the issue into the realm of theology, the Church had been a willing ombudsman for the new astronomy. It had encouraged the work of Copernicus and sheltered Kepler against the persecutions of Calvinists. Problems only arose when the debate went beyond the mere question of celestial mechanics.