Galileo and Why He was Really Convicted of Heresy

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On October 31, 1992, the Roman Catholic Church admitted it had been wrong to condemn Galileo Galilei for promoting the Copernican astronomical theory. After a 13 year investigation into the persecution of Galileo that led to his official condemnation in 1633, Pope John Paul II rectified a wrong that forced the Italian astronomer and physicist to live the last years of his life in exile, and worse yet, to recant his proven discoveries to save his hide.
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  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut5 жыл бұрын

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  • @MegaNetty1

    @MegaNetty1

    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @aaraveddie3095

    @aaraveddie3095

    2 жыл бұрын

    Instablaster

  • @carsonianthegreat4672

    @carsonianthegreat4672

    2 ай бұрын

    Why are you misrepresenting the history of Galileo?

  • @andrewprahst2529
    @andrewprahst25293 жыл бұрын

    A few corrections: Galileo did not have conclusive evidence of the heliocentric model when he began teaching it. He was accused of teaching things that were not confirmed. There were many christians of the time who believed in the heliocentric model, but he tried to teach it even after being told to cease and desist. It wasn't until he was under house arrest that he provided sufficient theory.

  • @timothyscheidler6365

    @timothyscheidler6365

    2 жыл бұрын

    Slight correction - he was teaching heliocentrism as a fact, whereas it t had not been proven. He was told not to teach it as a fact, but was allowed to teach it as a theory.

  • @andrewprahst2529

    @andrewprahst2529

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@timothyscheidler6365 Thanks

  • @timothyscheidler6365

    @timothyscheidler6365

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewprahst2529 you're welcome.

  • @CantusTropus

    @CantusTropus

    2 жыл бұрын

    He still did not provide conclusive evidence even then. The final serious objections to heliocentrism were not answered until the early 1800s, when the creation of more powerful telescopes allowed better evidence to be gathered.

  • @HpPmL

    @HpPmL

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CantusTropus you're absolutely right, it was definitely proven in 1838 by Bessel, eventhough there was sufficient observational evidence before that. In itself Heliocentrism as Galileo was teaching it was completely wrong.

  • @cernowaingreenman
    @cernowaingreenman6 жыл бұрын

    And even today, great educated people like Neil DeGrass Tyson continue to propagate the story of how Galileo was a "martyr for Science" standing up against the anti-scientific Church. Kudos to "Today I Found Out" for clearing up the historical aspects of the non-scientific aspects of the conflict between Galileo and the Pope.

  • @kintsugikame

    @kintsugikame

    2 жыл бұрын

    “great educated people like Neil Degrass Tyson” oh man, I had a good laugh at that one 😂

  • @marksimons4108

    @marksimons4108

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kintsugikame Flatearth banjo on youtube

  • @kintsugikame

    @kintsugikame

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marksimons4108 why?

  • @kintsugikame

    @kintsugikame

    11 ай бұрын

    @Gittana-ip2ms Specialization is not the paradigm you think it is. Spending 6+ years and thousands of dollars getting an “advanced” degree like Tyson’s isn’t a display of intelligence, it’s a display of obedience. A lot of people like Tyson who specialize in one area of study tend to be educated far beyond their intelligence. He’s never invented or contributed any real scientific work to his field, apart from revoking Pluto’s planet designation. He’s listed as a “science communicator” - he’s a good performer and he’s good at presentation, he’s good at collecting funds for scientific research (which, granted, is a noble and important part to play) but he’s rarely involved in any actual research and I just wouldn’t call him a “great” or “educated” person. He’s certainly no da Vinci or Einstein. He’s not even a Sagan or a Feynman.

  • @joalnith

    @joalnith

    4 ай бұрын

    I got here from a Neil degrasse Tyson video. He called Galileo a pompous ass and told about the simplicio story.

  • @jmchez
    @jmchez6 жыл бұрын

    Galileo was a supremely good debater at arguing for correct scientific analysis (moons around jupiter, spots on the surface of the sun) and, also, supremely good at arguing for completely erroneous scientific analysis (comets were cloudy disturbances in the atmosphere and the tides were caused by the earth sloshing the water as it moved). He said that the moon couldn't pull the water from a distance because that sounded like witchcraft. When other people pointed how wrong his own bad ideas were, he called them idiots and made enemies of them. Not a very diplomatic man that's why no jesuit came to his aid, he had offended most of them. Newton once said, that "tact was the act of making an argument without making enemies" and he was talking about Galileo. Of course, Newton was a total jerk who made enemies of those who couldn't fight back. Leibniz asked for a report from the Royal Society to clear his name after Newton accused him of stealing the idea for the calculus. The President of the Royal society was none other than Newton. When Leibniz died, Newton was quoted as saying, "Ha, hah, hah. I broke his heart". (That's just obscene!) At 86, Newton also said that one of his greatest achievements was dying a virgin; Sheldon Cooper has nothing on Newton in the weird a-hole department. Newton also predicted that the world would end in the year 2060. Watch out! Oh wait, weren't we talking about Galileo?

  • @_Gaby_950

    @_Gaby_950

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haha thank you so much for this lol. Both entertaining and informative.

  • @marksimons4108

    @marksimons4108

    Жыл бұрын

    Does the moon control the tide of the great lakes too?

  • @jmchez

    @jmchez

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marksimons4108 Yes, but because the mass of the water in those lakes is so much smaller than that of the oceans, the Great Lakes tides are about 2 inches, on average. Smaller than the wind-generated waves on the surface, so they are unnoticeable.

  • @DarkKnight-em7ue

    @DarkKnight-em7ue

    7 ай бұрын

    Well, many great inventors were a*sholes. 1. Thomas Alva Edison, the greatest a*sholes of them all, he stole patents, etc. 2. Nikola Tesla, he's an a*sholes towards Einstein, he literally mocked the quantum theory. 3. Pythagoras, he literally drowned a follower of his cult, when his follower found out that irrational numbers are real. And many more.

  • @alexlandherr
    @alexlandherr6 жыл бұрын

    Galileo: *I didn’t expect the astronomical inquisition...*

  • @ATLockhart

    @ATLockhart

    5 жыл бұрын

    No one does...

  • @Sggggggggggg

    @Sggggggggggg

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @pvbutmemeverofficial10

    @pvbutmemeverofficial10

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol UwU OwO -_-

  • @Pimeduseroos
    @Pimeduseroos6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Simon for all the great videos. It is a time well spent.

  • @jorgeramos597
    @jorgeramos5975 жыл бұрын

    Benedetto Castelli told him that if Galileo provided evidence as proof of the Copernican theory they were willing to reinterpret scripture. But Galileo could not comply successfully because his “evidence” was not accurate.

  • @jl9062

    @jl9062

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yepp (although I believe it was a letter, rather than a speech to Galileo?) Unfortunately many people still believe the Galileo affair was a conflict between "rational science" vs "evil church who wants to suppress science"

  • @fleskhjertafan93
    @fleskhjertafan936 жыл бұрын

    Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me. Galileo

  • @avlisk

    @avlisk

    6 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Made me laugh.

  • @jacob_90s
    @jacob_90s3 жыл бұрын

    I remember hearing a while back that another issue Galileo had was that to fully prove his theory would have required a theory of gravity, which itself requires Calculus, both of which were developed after Galileo's death.

  • @marksimons4108

    @marksimons4108

    Жыл бұрын

    Earth dont move as michelson and morley proved!

  • @WilliamHostman
    @WilliamHostman6 жыл бұрын

    You're missing one key element ... he was a tonsured cleric, and thus subject to canon law. Without that, he wouldn't have been subject to the trial.

  • @Psychodegu

    @Psychodegu

    6 жыл бұрын

    He also went around stating that his works were divine revelations.

  • @BlackEpyon

    @BlackEpyon

    6 жыл бұрын

    Common folk were victims of the inquisition as well.

  • @WilliamHostman

    @WilliamHostman

    6 жыл бұрын

    BlackEpyon not executed as such. They were, except in a few exceptional cases, executed by the crown, not the church, based upon a second pro-forma, judge trial based upon their church trial confession/conviction. The exceptions mostly involve the papal states, where the distinction was blurred, as the crown was the pope. Two edged sword, that... outside of rome, in Catholic nations, a tonsured cleric, friar, hermit, or monastic was immune to civil law. And non-tonsured were immune to execution by the church save for leading a schism, assaulting a cardinal on church property, or capital crimes in the papal states....

  • @douglasclerk2764

    @douglasclerk2764

    7 ай бұрын

    Tonsured? Not apparent in his portraits . . .

  • @WilliamHostman

    @WilliamHostman

    6 ай бұрын

    @@douglasclerk2764 Few non-monastics retained the tonsured hair.

  • @welshpete12
    @welshpete126 жыл бұрын

    As always interesting and informative . Thank you for posting !

  • @MS-dp2py
    @MS-dp2py6 жыл бұрын

    I always look forward to all your videos and channels updates

  • @josephvictory9536
    @josephvictory95366 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic summary of all points. I really enjoy that you went into the underside of the politics and highlighted the often easily forgotten fact that despite his arrest. Galileo was a very faithful catholic. Even showing in the quote the fact that most of modern christianity has developed along the line of self and scriptural inquiry that Galileo had in many ways exemplified. Man i just get more impressed with this channel over time.

  • @modolief
    @modolief6 жыл бұрын

    Superb work, extremely informative, thanks very much!

  • @MickeyD2012
    @MickeyD20126 жыл бұрын

    Convected? Ow. And you thought being burned on a stake sucked.

  • @paultubbs3510

    @paultubbs3510

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Original Gamer Convected made me think convection ovens, typo for the win lol

  • @AP-yx1mm
    @AP-yx1mm6 жыл бұрын

    Note that the Church didn't have anything against Copernicus, because at that time it was not that important, it is after the Council of Trent(the catholic answer to lutheran/reformation movement) that they had this knew approach, with Giordano Bruno as first victim...

  • @Veellinn

    @Veellinn

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, there was a lot of politics involved as well. And politics could very well kill you. I mean, just look at the Thomas Moore.

  • @joshduthie3401

    @joshduthie3401

    6 жыл бұрын

    My understanding is that this stuff was critically important for navigation. The old model, while being wrong in it's basic tenant, was actually very detailed and complicated and did predict the planet's movement correctly - while the new theory was critically undeveloped and would have lead to navigation errors and hence deaths.

  • @eliasfrp

    @eliasfrp

    6 жыл бұрын

    Read more about Giordano Bruno, and you might find out that he wasn't so much a scientist, but more a heretic indeed.

  • @lynnmartz8739

    @lynnmartz8739

    6 жыл бұрын

    While the Council of Trent and the Church's upset over the Reformation/Protestantism movement likely played a big part, if I recall correctly Copernicus had the good sense to not publish until he was about to die. Galileo may have thought his personal relationship with the Pope would give him some leeway. I had not heard that the Pope or anyone else thought that Simplicio could have been interpreted as being the voice for the Pope. Just that with all going on, Galileo went too far in pushing the heliocentric version when the Church had said you can't believe in it.

  • @alonsoACR

    @alonsoACR

    8 ай бұрын

    Giordano Bruno was a lunatic though? I mean his story is tragic, but it's for ending up killed as a result of untreated mental illness. It's unrelated to Trent and Copernicus. Also which canons in Trent were in any way applicable to astronomy? I don't remember reading anything about that in there.

  • @music4ever1981
    @music4ever19816 жыл бұрын

    According to this, Galileo was "convected" of heresy, instead of being "convicted" of it.

  • @deplorableamerican9451
    @deplorableamerican94516 жыл бұрын

    Glad I decided to watch this. I skipped past it because I knew just the simple story as to why. Thanks!

  • @inisipisTV
    @inisipisTV6 жыл бұрын

    It should be worth noting that Martin Luther's Protestant group and other Reformed church are on the rise, including the 30 year war happening at that time, and much of Galileo's finding seems to agree with Johann Kepler's works, who is an ardent Calvinist, also greatly contributed to Galileo's conviction. The reason most of Galileo's books are published in Holland is because it's supported by the Dutch Reformed Church.

  • @vulgardisplayoftruth2060

    @vulgardisplayoftruth2060

    6 жыл бұрын

    inisipisTV, I think he knew not to piss on the country that he seeked sanctuary in after fleeing his persecution. Plus they were also seeking new technology & science that would give them a commanding lead against competing countrys.

  • @lynnmartz8739

    @lynnmartz8739

    6 жыл бұрын

    Galileo's time in Rome during his Inquisition was in the home of the ambassador, and when he finally was allowed to return to House Arrest in his own home in Florence he was nearly a broken man. As for being good friends with the Pope, not so much as Galileo apparently thought! And certainly not after his Inquisition!

  • @KarasekUS

    @KarasekUS

    5 жыл бұрын

    +inisipisTV Except Galileo was celebrated by the Church, including audiences with the pope and enjoyed a career teaching at Catholic universities, where the Copernican theory was being taught for 100 years by that time already, while it was Martin Luther who rejected Heliocentrism as contrary to the Scripture and actually burned an effigy of Copernicus at a stake as a heretic. Protestants also persecuted Rheticus, the protestant mathematician who collaborated with Copernicus on improving the mathematical model of the system. They accused him of being a homosexual and ruined his career, he had to relocate from Wittenberg to Krakow. That was one of the reasons the scientific community of the time rejected Galileo's claims - other models were producing better calculations of positions of planets. And BTW, Copernicus was a Catholic cleric, and was persuaded and commissioned to develop the Heliocentric model by four Catholic bishops, including future pope, to whom he later dedicated the manuscript.

  • @KarasekUS

    @KarasekUS

    5 жыл бұрын

    +Lynn Martz Galileo wasn't persecuted because of his views on Heliocentrism, but because he was an asshole, going around and offending people, and alienating his benefactors, including the pope. And the Inquisition bent over backwards to be lenient to Galileo, including stretching the proceedings and revising its decisions in his favor.

  • @rhodesianwojak2095

    @rhodesianwojak2095

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KarasekUS ^^^

  • @TheJavaMonkey
    @TheJavaMonkey6 жыл бұрын

    The “C” in “Medici” is pronounced “Ch.” Med-ee-chee.

  • @JohnFDonovan-by1nt
    @JohnFDonovan-by1nt2 ай бұрын

    My understanding is that what also emboldened the Church to go after Galileo is that many of the leading scientists of the times supported the Ptolemaic system and were rather glad Galileo got his comeuppance as he was viewed in that community as being difficult and arrogant. Pope JPII also warned the church never to make theological judgements based on science because by its very investigative nature science does change, quite frequently as the support in some scientist quarters for the Church's decision on Galileo showed.

  • @SuperKingslaw
    @SuperKingslaw6 жыл бұрын

    Very well stated!

  • @MrTohawk
    @MrTohawk6 жыл бұрын

    Just finished Brechts Live of Galilei for uni so this is right on time.

  • @blueoak116
    @blueoak11610 ай бұрын

    Well done. Thanks.

  • @louismelahn1805
    @louismelahn18056 жыл бұрын

    “Medici” (some of his patrons) is pronounced “MEH-dee-chee,” just FYI.

  • @themejin93
    @themejin936 жыл бұрын

    Love you guys, but you may have missed some important points. First, Copernicus was a monk, and his model was held as a possibility though not widely accepted. Second Galileo made most of his arguments using really poor math and, if I recall correctly, tides. It wasn't his view that was the primary issue, but how he got there. Mostly his house arrest was for calling the pope an idiot and not for the heliocentric model, which others at the time held as true/ a possibility.

  • @hugehappygrin

    @hugehappygrin

    6 жыл бұрын

    He was being held on the charge of not only calling his peers idiots, but also he frequently plagiarized their work.

  • @celluskh6009

    @celluskh6009

    6 жыл бұрын

    Copernicus was not a monk, and his view was widely accepted despite being banned by the church and being the reason Galileo was imprisoned. The Pope revoked his protection from Galileo because of the perceived slight, rather than imprisoning him specifically for it.

  • @themejin93

    @themejin93

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cellus KH I stand corrected on the monk aspect, thanks for that. The banning didn't really take effect, or was even really a concern until the Galileo issue occurred

  • @jl9062

    @jl9062

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@celluskh6009 Heliocentrism was NOT accepted by the majority in the early 17th century. Geo-centrism made sense in terms of SCIENCE back then. Heliocentrism was still weak.

  • @celluskh6009

    @celluskh6009

    5 жыл бұрын

    What science? That was half a millenium after the Arabs developed the models that Copernicus popularized in Europe. There's a big difference between people who bother to figure things out, and, as Copernicus put it, "babblers... completely ignorant of [astronomy]"

  • @carsonianthegreat4672
    @carsonianthegreat46724 жыл бұрын

    This is a total misrepresentation of what happened

  • @therealong

    @therealong

    2 ай бұрын

    The video is still available and commented on.

  • @carsonianthegreat4672

    @carsonianthegreat4672

    2 ай бұрын

    @@therealong yeah, and a total fabrication of history

  • @savagefysik9375
    @savagefysik93756 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos, but you should be clear. In that day, there was a HUGE difference between "convicted of heresy" and "convicted of suspicion of heresy." Had he actually been convicted of heresy, he'd never had left the Vatican. In addition, his 'heresy' wasn't the Copernican model itself, but going against (brazenly I might add) a previous Papal order. In addition, 'Two Worlds' was absolutely a rebuke of the Pope. Galileo was a headstrong and overly arrogant person. It's the general historical belief that he knew exactly what he was doing, but believed he had tacit approval from the Pope because of... I kid you not... a likely clerical error from an earlier Papal document concerning an earlier Vatican investigation.

  • @alexporter7379

    @alexporter7379

    5 жыл бұрын

    In many ways Galileo was an asshole, a correct asshole, but an asshole none the less.

  • @rhodesianwojak2095

    @rhodesianwojak2095

    4 жыл бұрын

    this

  • @Autobotmatt428

    @Autobotmatt428

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alexporter7379 David Bently Hart put it like this when you really look into this event what you find are two very egotistical men butting heads.

  • @alexporter7379

    @alexporter7379

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Autobotmatt428 Aye, that's as I've heard it as well. Ego was a strong factor in the entire event.

  • @_blank-_

    @_blank-_

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alexporter7379 How so?

  • @whosreallytheboss
    @whosreallytheboss6 жыл бұрын

    Great story! THANK YOU! :)

  • @CaptainKent
    @CaptainKent6 жыл бұрын

    Hey Simon, how about a video on "The Metric Conversion Act" of 1975 in the United States. It was an interesting time to live through. I only wish it had worked. :/

  • @originalhgc

    @originalhgc

    6 жыл бұрын

    Right? In 6th grade we learned the metric system inside-out, in preparation for switching. Then, fizzle.

  • @OriginalDonutposse

    @OriginalDonutposse

    6 жыл бұрын

    I live in the us and decided it’s finally time to just use metric and offer the conversion after saying the metric units. Then, they can see it’s not that hard once you get used to it, and it’s something anyone can do. Seriously, if you can memorize 32, 98.6, 212, you can remember 0=32 16=61 and 37=100 and 100=212.

  • @carportchronicles1943

    @carportchronicles1943

    6 жыл бұрын

    The only lasting contributions from this act are 2-liter bottles of soda and the way vehicle engine displacement is described.

  • @celluskh6009

    @celluskh6009

    6 жыл бұрын

    The US has always been metric. Feet and pounds and so on are converted from the KMS system. I think Tom Scott has a video on this already. Really, Americans couldn't do things more backwards.

  • @greatwolf5372

    @greatwolf5372

    6 жыл бұрын

    originalhgc I don't know where you live but metric is taught in American schools. Most Science problems especially in high school use metric.

  • @lazyperson2000
    @lazyperson20006 жыл бұрын

    Could you do a video on how the internet could crash and the aftermath of such a thing? Thank you for making these videos (I've learned so much interesting information). :)

  • @joeldeakin2003
    @joeldeakin20036 жыл бұрын

    Galileo Galileo, Galileo let me go

  • @julians7268
    @julians72686 жыл бұрын

    How does one get convected of heresy? *edit* Please note the spelling before responding. People have devoted a lot of time responding to this as though it was a genuine question. I'm just poking fun at a misspelling that is, or was if they corrected it, in the title.

  • @pantaleimona

    @pantaleimona

    6 жыл бұрын

    Julian Sloop lol

  • @agnathar

    @agnathar

    6 жыл бұрын

    Julian Sloop they stuffed him full of it, changed his shape to convex...duh duh duh Convected!

  • @Thanatos420

    @Thanatos420

    6 жыл бұрын

    By being dropped into a volcano in one of the most extreme acts of corporal punishment ever! Lol.

  • @samanthastuessel7986

    @samanthastuessel7986

    6 жыл бұрын

    Julian Sloop Julian Sloop It used to be a law. Ever hear of the witch trials? Or the bloody 300 years of England? All convictions of Heresy.

  • @samanthastuessel7986

    @samanthastuessel7986

    6 жыл бұрын

    Weeblet ABM I seriously just noticed it was spelled wrong when I read someone elses comment 🤣🤣 went right over my head there LOL

  • @gerardacronin3095
    @gerardacronin30956 жыл бұрын

    Convection is how heat transfers, not how Galileo was CONVICTED.

  • @extraSPARErib

    @extraSPARErib

    6 жыл бұрын

    Gerarda Cronin no, that is an oven, radiation is how that shit works ... then convections you we find LARPing at, in the Wonder Woman outfit you ... made ... buy a life now on eBay, just, not mine, it is free for all to mock and enjoy, and hate, and touch tips with. Ggggaaaaaayyyyy much. Naw. Just with my ... own two cacks ..

  • @xxXthekevXxx

    @xxXthekevXxx

    6 жыл бұрын

    Typos are common on this channel. Which is kinda strange, considering how many times they read over their content before publishing it... if they hired me, I’d catch all this shit immediately.

  • @trevorclayton2131

    @trevorclayton2131

    6 жыл бұрын

    que?

  • @Treatsandthreadscom

    @Treatsandthreadscom

    6 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @anonymousvlogger8608
    @anonymousvlogger86086 жыл бұрын

    I was literally just reading about Galileo.

  • @tomzeman5964
    @tomzeman59644 жыл бұрын

    The wheel in the sky stopped turnin when the fool on the hill saw the world spinnin round

  • @nenabunena
    @nenabunena5 жыл бұрын

    galileo was never tortured and was in fact given a nice room with a personal valet during his trial

  • @TCDooM
    @TCDooM6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Good listening it was. If you really remember all you record, you must know a lot! 😁

  • @Dionysus-senpai
    @Dionysus-senpai6 жыл бұрын

    Convection, noun "the movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat." Just thought I'd point this out along with the rest of the comment section.

  • @Gamingderpmonglers
    @Gamingderpmonglers6 жыл бұрын

    In every video when he says, "Hello, I'm Simon Whistler," I alway reply with a "hello" back.

  • @samsiangchin8394
    @samsiangchin83943 жыл бұрын

    ngl, the narrator's voice is very soothing.

  • @Edithae
    @Edithae6 жыл бұрын

    So basically...he trolled the Pope and got punished for it.

  • @dw6528

    @dw6528

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Catholic summation is published online at the Vatican Observatory web-site. In that article they acknowledge the a sun-centered Copernican universe was considered heresy at that time - because it conflicted with their current interpretation of scripture.

  • @alonsoACR

    @alonsoACR

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@dw6528 Heresy? Is that the word they used? Opposing a Church stance is very different from heresy. The former is a call to humbly try to understand the Church's reasoning and, if unable (due to time or mental faculties), obey regardless. Meanwhile heresy is heresy no matter the time period and it must be of a grave, core matter. If Galileo was condemned as a formal heretic for heliocentrism back then, then all of us are heretics as well. Because what is heresy is unchangeable. But it's not: There's not a single Apostolic letter, Biblical support, Ecumenical canon, or any sort of Papal letter that even suggests that holding Heliocentrism is completely contrary to Christianity. Not even by implication. Zero.

  • @dw6528

    @dw6528

    8 ай бұрын

    @@alonsoACR DW: The word heresy in Latin is "hæresis" - which defined as a school of thought or a philosophical sect. The probably was - the holy interpreters of scripture within the church at that time - would not take it as a compliment - for a common person to suggest or infer they got it wrong.

  • @alonsoACR

    @alonsoACR

    8 ай бұрын

    @@dw6528 I didn't expect you to reply with the etymology. The meaning changed over time, but the definition held in the Catholic Church is in the Catechism (CCC 2089): "Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same" (fyi the Catechism is published in Latin, this is the English translation) The conditions then are: - Obstinate: You were confronted, offered to debate it, yet remain stubborn. - Post-baptismal: It's only applicable to Christians - Denial: You openly refuse it. What qualifies? "Truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith" refers to something specific we call _dogma._ This includes the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Sacrifice of the Mass, etc. They must be 1. straight from Scripture, or be a necessary consequence of it and 2. declared as such in Council or by the Pope (in limited scenarios). Whatever "holy interpreters of scripture of the time" say DOES NOT matter AT ALL. I can call them idiots all day and still not be a heretic as along as it's not something ACTUALLY defined INFALLIBLY. Really few things qualify as dogma. I can actually refuse the legitimacy of the Bible, yet it's NOT heresy because it's not a dogma. I can call the Pope a dummy, use the Bible as paper towel, call the Vatican's scholars deluded idiots, cheat on my wife, destroy a car, and it will still NOT be heresy.

  • @stevensmiseck3526
    @stevensmiseck35266 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done summary. Enjoyed it. Since so many are focused on your pronunciation of “Medici”, I thought I’d thank you for the correct pronunciation of “err.” 😉

  • @PilsnerGrip
    @PilsnerGrip6 жыл бұрын

    It reminds me of a video of a devout Catholic that calls the show Atheist experience and argues heavily against the theory of evolution with much conviction, but once he's informed that "by the way the Catholic church accepts evolution now" he immediately responds "oh then I accept it too then" ...

  • @DrakoDragonis

    @DrakoDragonis

    6 жыл бұрын

    ''sheep'', what can I say :)

  • @Veellinn

    @Veellinn

    6 жыл бұрын

    At least he is consistent is his devotion to church. I mean creationists are really big in USA for some reason, despite that not following catholic church doctrine at all.

  • @Veellinn

    @Veellinn

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aaah, that explains it. For some reason I thought they identified themselves as such, but it is true I should have taken history more into consideration. What are they anyway? Protestants?

  • @andymcl92

    @andymcl92

    6 жыл бұрын

    I feel I should point out that this immediate belief in something you don't understand isn't confined to discrete groups within the Church. I don't know the number of times I've had to inform people that a headline along the lines of "Scientists prove that...[insert shocking revelation here]" actually means the opposite of what the journalist reports, or that the "scientists" probably didn't really do their job, and yet many of my Facebook friends just believe it because "a scientist said so" without them even considering peer review (because they don't know how science or clickbait work!).

  • @andymcl92

    @andymcl92

    6 жыл бұрын

    Correct. Neither does "a devout Catholic" misunderstanding scripture have anything to do with the content of the scripture (or arguably with the scholars interpenetrating it within context, whether geographical, political, historical etc.). But it does have to do with the individual and/or whatever preacher [reporter] they listen to.

  • @TheFaraway8
    @TheFaraway86 жыл бұрын

    Misspelling in the title, in the notification... GENIUS.

  • @TheFaraway8

    @TheFaraway8

    6 жыл бұрын

    Misspelling in the actual video....not so much. Bet this shits still clicking off the hook tho

  • @colacurciolaw7745
    @colacurciolaw77456 жыл бұрын

    Getting "convected" has to hurt like hell.

  • @rasapplepipe
    @rasapplepipe6 жыл бұрын

    In a convection oven? Man catholicism was no joke back then.

  • @bittu2507

    @bittu2507

    2 жыл бұрын

    true

  • @bittu2507

    @bittu2507

    2 жыл бұрын

    Religion is Shit

  • @RGNRK-rm1eq

    @RGNRK-rm1eq

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bittu2507 people are shit

  • @KittenoftheBroccoli
    @KittenoftheBroccoli6 жыл бұрын

    OK wait. At first I thought the title was just spelled wrong, but it's even spelled wrong in the video. I just... I can't even...

  • @verdatum
    @verdatum6 жыл бұрын

    God, I wish more people knew the real story. I was taught the story wrong so many times. You told the story correctly. I still say his dialogue comes off as Galileo being a total dick. That was unwise.

  • @alexseguin5245

    @alexseguin5245

    6 жыл бұрын

    The real story isn't much different. Church still looks bad, Galileo was still treated unfairly.

  • @readhistory2023

    @readhistory2023

    6 жыл бұрын

    Taco Pro I take it you made up your mind about the smoking or non smoking seating?

  • @xo-1320

    @xo-1320

    6 жыл бұрын

    Alex Seguin Actually given the time he was living in he was actually treated nicely. Keep in mind that this is the late middle ages. Only nobles clergy and Kings had anything resembling human rights and most crimes had serve punishment and in some cases they didn't need much of a excuse to kill or torture you.

  • @DaremoTen
    @DaremoTen6 жыл бұрын

    I had hoped for some additional words on the provenance of E pur si muove. I don't think it's something that needs it's own video, but is still really interesting.

  • @_Mr.Tuvok_
    @_Mr.Tuvok_6 жыл бұрын

    *Convicted also...FIRST ONE HERE!!!!! Love everything u do Simon (and Daven and crew)

  • @fsmoura
    @fsmoura6 жыл бұрын

    "Galileo and Why He was Convected of Heresy" *_*convection intensifies*_*

  • @hgodvilla00
    @hgodvilla003 жыл бұрын

    Simon, your facts are wrong. The man who supported Galileo was Pope Paul V, while the man who persecuted Galileo was Pope Urban VIII.

  • @wanggalileo2067
    @wanggalileo20676 жыл бұрын

    Glad my parents named me after him

  • @panthar1
    @panthar16 жыл бұрын

    Like any history video, there is a lot of details that are often missed. I read a book on this a while back, and I recall that he had a decree from the pope to publish his works. It was only when a new pope arrived that the decree was not accepted by the church and problems arose with the church. Plus there was other factors as other commenters have pointed out.

  • @dw6528

    @dw6528

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes - he had a decree to publish a "Neutral" exposition on the subject - in which he was not to appear to contradict the Church's current position. He disobeyed that decree - and argued for a sun-centered Copernican universe which was against the church's current position. It is said that during his inquisition he asked for forgiveness and asked if he could re-write it. He was denied that request. You can check the Catholic Vatican Observatory article on the subject where they acknowledge the sun-centered Copernican universe was considered heresy at that time.

  • @Vortexfugue
    @Vortexfugue6 жыл бұрын

    Would kind of suck if he was not only convicted but also convected as well.

  • @sentientcardboarddumpster7900
    @sentientcardboarddumpster79002 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of what's going on today with certain areas of topics

  • @gregallenmolick
    @gregallenmolick6 жыл бұрын

    CONVECTED!

  • @zeromailss
    @zeromailss6 жыл бұрын

    Well, people always thought that they are the center of the universe Nothing new

  • @dongiovanni13

    @dongiovanni13

    6 жыл бұрын

    MeowAlien にゃあエイリアン we are in the center of the universe. Expansion makes any point seem to be in the center because all points accelerate away from us.

  • @jonbowman7686

    @jonbowman7686

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well, from our perspective we *are* the center of the observable universe, so they'd be correct. Other than that you've got a good point.

  • @edwardrhoads7283

    @edwardrhoads7283

    6 жыл бұрын

    It is too bad the center of our universe may not even be in our universe much like the center of a balloon is not located on the "universe" on the surface of a balloon

  • @jonbowman7686

    @jonbowman7686

    6 жыл бұрын

    You're right that there is no center of the entire universe. It could even be infinitely large. But because light travels at a finite speed and the universe has a finite age, there is a center of the _observable_ universe from each person's perspective. But from the universe's "perspective" there is no center. Everything is simply expanding away from each other at a sufficient distance. Also it's interesting that the location of the big bang is everywhere. Everywhere around us is the "point" of space that the big bang happened. We can see that "point" in every section of the sky 14 billion light years away.

  • @edwardrhoads7283

    @edwardrhoads7283

    6 жыл бұрын

    I like to use an inflating balloon analogy. The balloon expands and everything seems to move away because the membrane of the balloon is expanding. If you consider the surface of the balloon a "universe" then the center of that universe is not in that universe but in another dimension which is not part of that universe and their universe expands due to an expansion in that same dimension. It is very possible that our universe is a 4 D surface of a 11 D balloon (M-theory) and so the "center" of our universe may not even exist in our universe. It is kind of mind blowing to think of it that way.

  • @chrisstylwin8475
    @chrisstylwin84756 жыл бұрын

    Good save.

  • @LadyWayen
    @LadyWayen6 жыл бұрын

    Should have added the relic middle finger of Galileo in some church in Florence

  • @ENDfilms44
    @ENDfilms446 жыл бұрын

    It's misspelled to convected in both the youtube title and in the video. lol

  • @silkworm6861
    @silkworm68616 жыл бұрын

    Nice. Shame you didn't mention the "E pur si muove" subplot (which might be a myth, but still interesting)

  • @s.d.s.7007
    @s.d.s.70076 жыл бұрын

    Galileo was a great scientist, and bravely stood up to the church as you describe. The true hero, however, was Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake for refusing to recant his agreement with Copernicus's proof that the earth was not the center of the universe, as church dogma demanded. Would you please do another video outlining the known facts concerning Giordano Bruno? The story I heard was that he turned his head away from an offered bible at the last moments and is quoted as saying about the earth "never the less, it DOES move!". I would appreciate your help in determining the facts of this event.

  • @Nothing_serious

    @Nothing_serious

    6 жыл бұрын

    That does not make galileo less of a hero.

  • @Gew219

    @Gew219

    6 жыл бұрын

    S.D. S. Actually Galileo was terrible scientist spreading many erroneous theories. For example he belived in perfectly circular orbits of planets, comets not being physical objects and tides being created by rotation of the Earth.

  • @Nothing_serious

    @Nothing_serious

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes because science was still developing at the time that doesn't make him a bad one. Yes he was wrong and Newton is wrong about gravity too until Einstein came. A lot of physicist didn't believe in atoms at first too and it was one the main reasons why Boltzmann committed suicide because of criticisms. Ernst Mach, a well-known physicist even quoted ""I don't believe that atoms exist!". Even Einstein was wrong about quantum mechanics but that doesn't make them a bad one because science were still developing at the time.

  • @s.d.s.7007

    @s.d.s.7007

    6 жыл бұрын

    Agreed, Yes that is the perspective from which all of these contributions make the most compelling sense. I never meant to detract from nor diminish from any of them. I know that I don't have all the facts, and so am glad to have more information in order to better appreciate a bigger perspective. My only point was that Giordano was BURNED ALIVE(!) for fuck's sake.....

  • @jl9062

    @jl9062

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@s.d.s.7007 You can call Bruno a champion of free speech, free thought and so on. At the same time, he was a person like Deepak Chopra.

  • @vanir_freyr
    @vanir_freyr6 жыл бұрын

    I'm digging the shirt, mate. Lookin' sharp

  • @InfiniteBeautyOfficial
    @InfiniteBeautyOfficial2 жыл бұрын

    🕊️ Galileo, guess what? Fast forward 458+ years after your birthday till the end of humanity... The world knows your name 🕊️🗽💞 Cheers , it's 2022🥂 your enemies are unknown by name to us. You're a Legend Galileo 🎇🕊️💞

  • @nomadic-loyalist
    @nomadic-loyalist6 жыл бұрын

    Guys they make videos full of information everyday cut them some slack

  • @EJavierPaniaguaLaconich

    @EJavierPaniaguaLaconich

    6 жыл бұрын

    Space Loyalist Ok, but Alltime10s for example: they do crappily researched videos but at least they don't have misspellings! So unsub! No wait... 😂

  • @blessindia1
    @blessindia16 жыл бұрын

    Hi Simon. Could you do a video on Zachariah Boutros?

  • @anyideas_
    @anyideas_6 жыл бұрын

    I always like to know how Galileo was transported of Heresy.

  • @davidcoyne9448
    @davidcoyne94486 жыл бұрын

    A vid on Kepler would be grand.

  • @TheFuhrerOfPop
    @TheFuhrerOfPop6 жыл бұрын

    video topic idea: Why on earth do they make scented toilet paper?!?!?! You wipe with it and flush it anyway. Also, I have a very small restroom and I dont notice any difference in the scent of the room. Please upvote this so he can see it. Its been bothering me all day!

  • @Wingedshadowwolf

    @Wingedshadowwolf

    6 жыл бұрын

    Palace Of Decay Well, I haven't bought scented TP, but I could see a use for it. My home is off the grid, so it's hooked up to a septic system. It seems like it needs to be pumped out less when we don't flush the TP, thus there is a trash can in the bathroom for it. I use a small can so it fills up quicker and then gets emptied more often so it doesn't start to stink.

  • @TheFuhrerOfPop

    @TheFuhrerOfPop

    6 жыл бұрын

    thats the thing, though. it is scented but its not a very strong scent at all. you literally have to put your nose right up to the TP to smell anything. id imagine the smell of anything on it would easily make the scent useless

  • @claytonfrag

    @claytonfrag

    6 жыл бұрын

    Palace Of Decay lol

  • @TheFuhrerOfPop

    @TheFuhrerOfPop

    6 жыл бұрын

    i wish my ass smelled good. and yeah, im pretty retarded.

  • @kazzyanddecchan733
    @kazzyanddecchan7336 жыл бұрын

    The story of Galileo: (Ahem) Galileo figaro. *MAGNIFICO-O*-O-o-o. The end.

  • @gabrielenarbutaite6244

    @gabrielenarbutaite6244

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kazzy and Decchan haha good one!

  • @fafinaf
    @fafinaf6 жыл бұрын

    Convection? Poor guy

  • @schregen

    @schregen

    6 жыл бұрын

    Haha that avatar is funny! 🍄💋🍄💋

  • @shreyagupta5523
    @shreyagupta55232 жыл бұрын

    In which country from u sir

  • @lackcerebro
    @lackcerebro5 жыл бұрын

    "Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening me" -Galileo

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_2 жыл бұрын

    Watched all of it

  • @gold4963
    @gold49636 жыл бұрын

    "Convected?"

  • @JayFlowie

    @JayFlowie

    6 жыл бұрын

    GOLD 1515 burnt?

  • @Thanatos420

    @Thanatos420

    6 жыл бұрын

    Extreme heat transfer. It's what happens when you get too close to lava. You instantly burst into flames due to convection. Basically, Galileo was deemed a heretic...and thus, tossed into a live volcano apparently. That or microwaved lol.

  • @gold4963

    @gold4963

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanatos420 Seriously?

  • @Thanatos420

    @Thanatos420

    6 жыл бұрын

    Depends on what you mean by seriously. Was he really tossed into a microwave or volcano? No. Not really. That was a joke. But is that actually how convection works? Basically, yes. In real life, if you got too close to lava, not only would your body burst into flames (without even having to touch it) but all the water in your body would boil instantly from all the heat around you. All of this because of convection (extreme heat transfer) essentially acting as an oven on your body, both inside and out. That part is actually true, yes.

  • @gold4963

    @gold4963

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanatos420 Thanks for clearing that up.

  • @flukislucas
    @flukislucas6 жыл бұрын

    So the church transported Galileo via heat cells? Nice!

  • @Cursivealpha
    @Cursivealpha3 жыл бұрын

    I have the same shirt!

  • @r.connor9280
    @r.connor92804 жыл бұрын

    So what you're saying is that it was a slander case blown out of proportion and had almost nothing to do with his actual science but the presentation that he used

  • @spacemissing
    @spacemissing6 жыл бұрын

    The moral of this while thing is "Don't Fight The Powers That Be On Their Own Ground."

  • @hugehappygrin
    @hugehappygrin6 жыл бұрын

    You never know where you find history. I found this bit of history in The Ring of Fire: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint.

  • @bradfordeaton6558
    @bradfordeaton65586 жыл бұрын

    Galileo failed to heed a very basic lesson: don't crap in your own nest.

  • @JohnMyers1970
    @JohnMyers19706 жыл бұрын

    Convicted, by any chance...? How does one become convected...? Lol

  • @ElliotWright

    @ElliotWright

    6 жыл бұрын

    He caught a lot of heat for his statements. :P

  • @JohnMyers1970

    @JohnMyers1970

    6 жыл бұрын

    Considering the subject at hand, that may well have been a possibility....

  • @6272355463637
    @62723554636376 жыл бұрын

    Do a video on Giordano Bruno. Sure, he's somewhat less famous than Galileo but his ideas were quite interesting and influential (and accordingly, his persecution was quite a bit harsher).

  • @stonedserpent9206

    @stonedserpent9206

    6 жыл бұрын

    Marcel Lindner and he was actually convected

  • @skwills1629

    @skwills1629

    6 жыл бұрын

    If SImon WHistler doesone on Bruno, it would be great, but will also destroy his utility as a Martyr for Science. Brunos ideas were not influential, nor was he executed for believing life existed on other World, or the Sun being just a Star. This myth was in fact created in The 19th Century by the Freethought Movement ad popularied by Drapers work on the subject, On The Warfare Between Science And Religion. In point of fact, Bruno was an occultist who advocated abandoning Christian ideals and worshiping Egyptian gods,. He also was allowed to lecture and travel freely for 15 Years before he was convicted, and unlike how he was presented in "Cosmos" by Neil DeGrase Tyson, he was actually quiet Antagonistic towards people, burning many bridges with his hot temper and irate, combative attitude. This fact is what many Historians believe underlie the execution more than any beliefs he advocated, as it is unwise to make the World your enemy. Bruno was an obscure figure until the Myth got started that Science and Reason were the enemies of Religion in general and Christianity in particular, when he was dredged up to serve as an exemplar of that supposed Truth of the Evil Christians murdering Scientists. Much like how modern Atheist depict The Rheinland Massacre as the Catholic Church murdering Jews in the Crusades when in Reality the Church condemned the Massacre and many Bishops sheltered Jews, one loosing his life in the proccess. Bruno was simply not hat many Think he was. One last fun fact. While Cosmos depicted him as having black hair, he was in fact redhead. I do not know why they changed this.

  • @skwills1629

    @skwills1629

    6 жыл бұрын

    Frak WInkhorst, that's nice. A book Title and description doesn't tell me anything though. It doesn't even tell me if the book itself is accurate. I could reccomendyou read "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop to learn about how Evil the Catholic Church is, and how its all based on Paganism, unlike True Christianity, or read Pason Weems biography of George Washington to see what a wonderful man he was, and moral, and just, that alone doesn't prove the books are accurate. It may well be this book is not a accurate presentation fo facts; Just like David Barton, Howard Zinn, Acharya S, Jordon Maxwell, Freke and Gandy, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, and any number of other "researchers" I could name whose books are not reliaible. I'd have to know more about it and its author.

  • @alexhurst3986
    @alexhurst39866 жыл бұрын

    Oh TYTYTYTYTYTY for doing Galileo!!! I have been asking for this. He is the poster child for the idiocy of the medieval church ensuring we remain in the dark ages by either discounting or killing all the scientists.

  • @MagnusSkiptonLLC
    @MagnusSkiptonLLC6 жыл бұрын

    Science can't answer all questions, but it can answer all the questions that *can be* answered.

  • @hudbudmudsud
    @hudbudmudsud6 жыл бұрын

    If you have too much power, your destined to be blinded by it.

  • @a.p6419
    @a.p64196 жыл бұрын

    Heyyyyy!!!! Its fixed! Yay! All is right with the world again!

  • @MickeyD2012

    @MickeyD2012

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sort of. The video evidence will remain forever.

  • @a.p6419

    @a.p6419

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah but we had ever so much fun, didn't we? 😉😄😁

  • @tohopes

    @tohopes

    6 жыл бұрын

    WHAT DID THEY DO?

  • @JimFortune
    @JimFortune6 жыл бұрын

    Convected? He drifted up due to heat?

  • @PureFPSPwnage

    @PureFPSPwnage

    6 жыл бұрын

    You beat me to it

  • @JimFortune

    @JimFortune

    6 жыл бұрын

    ;->

  • @Anon.5216
    @Anon.52162 жыл бұрын

    Galileo was going around speaking of his theories AND using the Bible to back them up. The Pope said that he should not use the Bible but prove his theory scientifically which Galileo refused to do. Also Galileo was wrong on one point but right on another. This video is NOT accurate.

  • @m.935

    @m.935

    Жыл бұрын

    Where can I read more about it or confirm that what you are saying are true historical facts? What is your source of this information?

  • @mandymoore5774

    @mandymoore5774

    Жыл бұрын

    Yea as far as the original comment I’m not buying that! You didn’t even site your source for your comment. You simply come across as an insulted bible banger. & science has always proven religion incorrect.

  • @daisy8284
    @daisy82846 жыл бұрын

    "Convected"? Lol

  • @sebastianhartung4407

    @sebastianhartung4407

    6 жыл бұрын

    had to look that word up because i wanted to know whether it actually exists :D

  • @muthut1000
    @muthut10006 жыл бұрын

    My professor told us this story on Friday. Alas he told us wrong thanks I have a test in this soon.

  • @edlabelle438
    @edlabelle438 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Simon Whistler, I am giving a presentation in May titled, Galileo's Spyglass Discoveries and Conflicts with the Catholic Church. As you mention in this short video, Galileo's friend, Maffeo Barberini, became Pope Urban VIII. He granted Galileo six personal meetings in Rome in 1624. Galileo wanted permission from Urban to write a book in a conversational style to compare the Ptolemaic versus Copernican models of our solar system. Urban granted Galileo permission in 1624 to write the book with the condition that Galileo only speak of the Copernican model as a hypothesis. And Urban disagreed with that Galileo's theory that the ebbs and tides proved that the Earth moves. Urban's belief was that God, in his infinite wisdom, could make the tides move without the Earth actually moving. Urban asked Galileo to include this position in the book and Galileo agreed to include it. Now, here's where I think Galileo made his big mistake: he put Urban's words into the mouth of the character Simplicio. Simplicio represented the Ptolemaic view of the immovable Earth. As you mentioned, Galileo portrayed Simplicio as a fool in the book. Galileo had alienated many of the Jesuit cardinals and clergy with his writings in past letters and books. They confronted Urban about Galileo making him look like a fool by putting Urban's words in Simplicio's mouth. Urban was outraged because the ending of the book seemed to promote the Copernican view and his words were spoken by the fool! The conclusion that I've come to after my research is that if Galileo would have put Urban's words into either Salviati's or Sagredo's mouth, then Pope Urban would not have been enraged and would not have initiated an Inquisition against Galileo. Do you think there is merit in this assessment? Regards, Ed LaBelle Psalm 19 Astronomy Society

  • @selftrollers8150
    @selftrollers81502 жыл бұрын

    Albert Einstein quoted him as " the father of Modern physics and of modern science ". 🤦But you prisoners of religion , damn you.

  • @davidjordan2336
    @davidjordan23365 ай бұрын

    There's actually more to it than this. The Church was apparently open to the Copernican view, and stated that the scriptural passages in question were largely inconsequential. From a scientific standpoint, the big issue was that the Ptolemaic system just worked significantly better. The Copernican theory did not correctly match the observed motions of the planets. And this is a big deal in science. Galileo claimed to have an explanation for the discrepancies, but never actually produced it. (The issue was that Copernicus postulated circular orbits, whereas the actual orbits are elliptical. When Copernican theory was modified to have elliptical orbits, then the discrepancy went away and pretty much everyone embraced the theory. So everyone was actually behaving pretty rationally, withholding support for an interesting new theory while it was contradicted by empirical observation, and then quickly embracing it after it was corrected and matched the observations. My understanding is the Galileo had some kind of political intrigue going on and was using the theory to attack some rival. He thought that the Pope had his back in this, but discovered that his behavior had just alienated too many people. Even so, his punishment was a slap on the wrist. Far from being a martyr of science, Galileo actually set science back significantly. Until this incident, the Church had been one of the biggest promoters of science, believing that it was the best way of discovering the will of God. And Italy was the center of scientific activity. But what Galileo taught was that science was a dangerous enemy to religion. Consequently, they pretty much shut science down in the areas they controlled.

  • @pirolodaniel
    @pirolodaniel6 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel, and the community, these comments about the typo are pure gold :) Galileo is cool too....

  • @JimFortune
    @JimFortune6 жыл бұрын

    "We can learn a lesson which remains valid in relation to similar situations that occur today." Yeah. When religion contradicts science, religion is wrong.

  • @eastonkeeton5370
    @eastonkeeton53706 жыл бұрын

    I think they meant convicted

  • @gmansard641
    @gmansard6419 ай бұрын

    One major event is rarely mentioned. . . The Thirty Years' War. It was the last major religious war in Europe, and in the early 1630s the Protestants were winning aome major victories. The Church felt beseiged and threatened and was less likely to tolerate controversy.