Through the Scorned Eyes of Simplicio….
Was Galileo really a martyr (put on house arrest anyway) for writing about heliocentrism? Here’s the familiar story: “On April 12, 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the … Read More