Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Galileo Galilei knew that the earth revolved around the sun. But this was Rome at the dawn of 17th century, and the Church didn’t see it that way. Galileo argued that scientific study and scripture should be independent of each other, because the Bible was written to be understood by the intended reader of the time.
The struggle between Galileo and the Church went on for 20 years, and he was ultimately convicted of heresy in 1633, and sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. The early correspondence between Galileo and Vatican authorities of the time was hand-copied and redistributed, and is suspected to have been edited- how and by…The post Discovery Shows Galileo Edited His Ideas to Fool the Inquisition appeared first on FeedBox.