Reddit reviews The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Compass)

Actually, even that's not strictly true. The Galileo Affair was more to do with Galileo insulting the Pope than his scientific positions. The Church was happy to reinterpret scripture when scientific proof was shown, but Galileo didn't have the necessary proof and instead argued that scientific theory, even without proof, must come before scripture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

I highly recommend "The Sleepwalkers" for a good history of the relationship between the church and science. http://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Universe-Compass/dp/0140192468

Edit: strictly true

If you're interested in the history behind all of this, I would definitely check out The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler.

>What you're doing is called a No True Scottsman fallacy.

What I am saying "whatever kind of teaching physics is not academia is not real physics". If it is a fallacy for you, your problem - that is how the world works, instutionally.

> Giordano Bruno

... was a mystic poet and thelogian who merely liked the Copernican model for aesthethical reasons and got the shitty end of the stick largely for personally insulting the pope. It was a morally abhorring thing but it had just about nothing ever to do with the issue of intellectualism.

Holy shit. Galilei was a dishonest, knowingly fallacious scientist, but at least one. You managed to find exactly that one guy who had about nothing to do with science.

Discussion stopped until you read a half-decent book, I do not engage in correcting high school leve historical fallacies on Reddit. I would recommend beginning here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Universe/dp/0140192468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414509443&sr=8-1&keywords=koestler+the+sleepwalkers

P.S. doubly holy shit "the history of your own religion?" how did you even get the idea that I would be a Christian? Because everybody is a Christian who does not spout self-righteous smug lies about it? Holy fuck you must be 15. Get off the Internet and rethink your life, if you are really that shallow to think that everybody belongs either to the haters or belivers, you really need to get a life and develop some amount of intellectual honesty. I cannot even recommend a book about that... probably you need some kind of therapy that helps you overcome the effect of overbearing religious parents or something.

For the shifting view of Galileo you can read: http://www.amazon.com/The-Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Universe/dp/0140192468 for the basis of the argument against him.

As for the inquisition declaring heliocentrism heretical you can just check out the wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

It's right in the opening paragraphs: "in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be formally heretical."

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Universe/dp/0140192468

> Everything from the trial of Galileo and Copernicus

There is a huge chance that you bought into urban legends and deliberate falsifications (originally, an anti-Catholic propaganda spread by Protestant Christians) regarding that.

Read The Sleepwalkers from (atheist) author Arthur Koestler, he gets the story right, backed up with proper sources, and is a fascinating story in general.

Seriously do, it is an absolutely great book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Universe/dp/0140192468