Did you know Galileo was considered a denier of science, condemned as a heretic by the Church and lived out his final years under house arrest? What was his crime?
Saying that the earth revolved around the sun.
You’ll be please to learn his remains were eventually allowed to be buried inside Santa Croce but not for many years after his death.
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to fixity of sun and earth you run into risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position - eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.
-Note added by Galileo in the preliminary leaves of his own copy of the Diaglogue
It seems history does in fact repeat itself. Hang tight fellow science deniers
and . Your vindication may take awhile.Visited the Galileo Museum today and this just might be my new favorite exhibit in all of Florence. I know a lot about art but science - not so much. I know far more after today.
Ciao!