[MD] Galileo and the church

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Hi John,

I believe it was hard to separate the academics from the church in
those days.  Many universities were set up by monks.  Kepler wanted to
be a priest before running into trouble with his views.  The church
was the most educated of institutions, so when we speak of academic,
the interpretation is kind of vague.  There was money being supplied
to astronomers by wealthy rulers which created a kind of new academic,
but this paled in comparison to the academics in the church.

The church position moved from Aristotelian views to Copernican views
but this took a while due to entrenched Aristotle followers in the
Church.  An yes, it was an ugly mess at that time.

Mark

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:59 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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