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Still: - the church officially wrote that the Earth is the center - that the Holy Scripture says so and - whoever says differently is heretic and the Earth
by acqq 3y ago
Still:
- the church officially wrote that the Earth is the center
- that the Holy Scripture says so and
- whoever says differently is heretic
and the Earth was never the center.
- defrost 3y agoNone of which had much to do with the persecution of Galileo. The Catholic Church has changed its stance on many things through time, see [history]. In this instance the Church itself had officially requested a presentation be made to demonstrate various arguments for and against different viewpoints .. one of which was that the heavens didn't rotate about the earth. It wasn't a surprise that such a well known hypothetical should appear in a book commissioned to outline such hypotheticals.