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Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social |
beef is what got Galileo arrested! the church wasn’t mad he wrote about heliocentrism (Copernicus did it years before and they were like *shrug emoji*), they were mad he took the pope’s money to write a book about how dumb the pope was the real story is so much funnier and bitchier than the lore
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Sysfin
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There was a contemporary of Newton who wrote some discovery in secret code and sent it to the papers. Then a year later announced his discovery because he was paranoid Newton would steal credit.
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John Cutting
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Oh, for sure. The popes (when they had political power) were absolutely wild. The trial still gave me one of my favorite quotes and the most true thing ever said by a Vatican official “To assert that the Earth revolves around the Sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin”
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Mayor of the Moon
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Tycho Brahe lost his nose over a duel about math
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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yeah don't take someone's money and then write a book where he's the star, only you change his name to "big ol' dummy"
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@ninjamonkky.bsky.social
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A lot of Queens in Catholic vestments throughout history
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Billy Suter
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The church already had beef with Galileo's dad, since he came up with the heretical idea of equal temperament tuning.
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Nekrởtzar
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Eppur si muove refers to the Pope’s bowels.
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Star (yes really)
@starelaine.bsky.social
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Ok so… I’m actually working on the costumes for a big shiny new rock musical version of this beef *right now*, and yes — big drama!
www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/galileo/
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@kevinrsours.bsky.social
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He systematically pissed off pretty much every faction of the church in different ways.
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David (he/him)
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For those of us who only know the lore, do you have a recommendation of a book or a podcast or a community theater production to get the actual story in detail?
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Anthony Moser
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Please say more
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Joe Discenza
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NdGT’s lazy take on this in Cosmos really turned me off.
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Peter Erwin
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The Church was unconcerned about heliocentrism when it was published *in the 16th Century*. But they placed De Revolutionibus on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1616 -- citing its contradiction of Scripture -- and that absolutely was one of the issues at Galileo's trial.
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Ryan
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It's wild to think about how the supposed quintessential conflict between religion and science is two Italian guys fighting like reality TV had been invented back then.
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Mo Ryan
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oh my god!!! in literally any scientific field, there are people who haaaate each other! Like every other page in Oppenheimer or any science history book is people with PhDs absolutely gunning for each other! the hateration is real!
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Entery Potivon
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How could we possibly have know it would take this long to find out!?
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