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- From: mpound@astro.umd.edu (Marc Pound)
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- Subject: Re: NEWS: Galileo Cleared of Heresy Charges by Vatican
- Message-ID: <16858@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:28:17 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.151820.23560@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1d7atkINNskq@smaug.West.Sun.COM> <1992Nov4.193735.16355@sal.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov4.193735.16355@sal.wisc.edu> lattis@sal.wisc.edu (Jim Lattis) writes:
- >
- >... But Galileo
- >had *no valid proof*, neither by their standards nor by ours. Thus, as
- >the seventeenth-century theologians saw it, they were not preventing
- >Galileo from speaking the truth. Rather, they were preventing him from
- >declaring *as true* a theory, which he could not prove, that they
- >(mistakenly) saw as dangerous to the authority of the Church and the
- >spiritual well-being of its believers.
- >
- >-jim lattis, space astronomy lab
-
- He had clear, compelling proof! He observed the phases of Venus,
- and thus showed it went around the Sun not the Earth.
- His observations of Jupiter's moons showed not only that they were
- not orbiting the Earth, but that a center of motion (Jupiter)
- could be in motion. At the time, it was argued that Earth could
- not be moving because it would leave the moon behind.
-
- Marc Pound
- Ast. Dept.
- University of Maryland
- mpound@astro.umd.edu
-