[MD] Galileo and the church

[Platt Holden]

Hi John,

Very interesting.

Platt

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:59 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just finished an interesting section in Wallace's book on meditation.
> Galileo wasn't persecuted by the church men and priests and such.
>  According
> to this author, he was persecuted by the academics - all the intellectuals
> in power, who had a whole system built up on false metaphysical assumptions
> and everything in its aristotleian accurate place, and this one lone guy
> threatens their whole power structure.    The enemy of science was not the
> church, it was the academy.
>
> At least according to this scholar that Marsha and I are reading.
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