Posted on 03/23/2014 7:37:53 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
They DID ask Galileo to do an experiment: Show us the parallax! He couldn't. The instruments weren't precise enough. He WAS allowed to publish his theory as speculation. He was not allowed to publish it as proven because it wasn't.
But he insisted on doing so. So he was put in house arrest.
The author makes a good point. But the unnecessary and incorrect reference to Galileo makes him look silly, even thou he edited the error about Galileo's being executed.
Oh for goodness sake.
You ARE joking, right? The educated Catholics knew the earth was round. They also had a pretty decent idea of its size. And so they knew that the westward route to “the Indies” would be very long indeed.
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If global warming was a scientific hypothesis with good supporting data, an actual scientist would say, “Come on, have at me, prove me correct or incorrect.” Polemics can allow no contradictions.
Boy, those ZeroHedgers sure know their history.
I think anyone who would imprison someone for expressing an opinion,,,should be shot like any despot. Just like you would for NKVD, Pol Pots Kymer Rouge, Gestapo, etc.
Free speech is my north star.
“And damn well dont start talking about executing me for it!”
In the parts I came from, openly discussing killing or kidnapping someone was a good way to get your own lamp blown out if they heard about it. People are funny that way,,,
“Galileo was sentenced to house arrest because he lied to the bishops when he said he would delay publishing his paper on how the earths rotation caused tides, but then published it anyway.”
Gosh, everyone knows if you lie to a Bishop,, you need to be forcibly held there, against your will. That’s exactly something Jesus said it should be that way,,, right?
Nice!
That's just the way I see it. However, the enviro-whacko commies have already gone far beyond threats. Many of them are entrenched in government agencies that are stealing land, shutting down businesses, destroying jobs, fining people for bogus reasons, and otherwise causing real harm to productive citizens.
Fair is fair after all!
> Oh for goodness sake.
You ARE joking, right? The educated Catholics knew the earth was round. They also had a pretty decent idea of its size. And so they knew that the westward route to the Indies would be very long indeed.
you forget not everyone had Internet access back in the day where they knew all these things nor did they have the telphones here they ould instantly communicate knowledge like this to one another... The ancient Greeks knew it long before the Catholics did...: )
“Will the, mars rover see the moon flag?”
“Suppose it was discovered tomorrow that the greenhouse effects has been way understimated, and that the catastrophic effects are actually going to set in 10 years from now, and not 100 years from now or something. Well, given the state of the popular movements we have today, wed probably have a fascist takeover-with everybody agreeing to it, because that would be the only method for survival that anyone could think of. Id even agree to it, because theres just no other alternatives right now.
Not me, in 10 years i’ll be 87 years old and don’t give a damn!
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Great commentary on the general subject being discussed here. Very worthwhile.
Which worked, sort of.
Spain didn't have a devastating religious war, like Germany, France and England, among others.
Yup. All educated people had known the earth was spherical for at least 2000 years.
Columbus underestimated the size of the earth, and overestimated the width of Asia.
The pundits at court were much closer to the actual distances involved and pointed out that Chris would run out of supplies long before he reached Japan.
They were quite right. If America hadn’t been in the way, CC and all his sailors would have died and the Crown’s investment would have been lost.
Due to some erroneous assumptions he was off by about 15%. Not too shabby for the time.
Fascinating story. Given the paucity of their equipment, the Greeks did some amazing scientific-like work.
OTOH, huge amounts of their speculations were wildly off, but we remember the ones that were reasonably close to the truth. Like Eratosthenes and Democritus.
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