11-July-2009, 05:31 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: San Antonio, Tx.
Posts: 8,440
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 Cool poetry!
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Originally Posted by ToeQuestor
Some had been burned before, thought Galileo, so ‘tis a difficult path to follow, yet the truth calls me forward… and so he had published the ‘Starry Messenger’.
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[At the time of that book] Have your seen any thing written to or from Galileo expressing any hint of encountering a similar fate as the well-established heretic Bruno? [There are no surviving trial documents for Bruno, apparently, but his heretical views were well known.]
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In 1616 Galileo wrote the ‘Letter to the Grand Duchess’ which vigorously attacked the followers of Aristotle. In this work, which he addressed to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, he argued strongly for a non-literal interpretation of Holy Scripture when the literal interpretation would contradict facts about the physical world proved by mathematical science.
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Yes, she had requested this information, I think, and was quite an admirer of their own popular star.
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He was later put under house arrest in his home in Florence, having by then nearly gone blind, but the starry memories of the Milky Way, the moons of Jupiter and more remained in a mind still free—that which could never be taken away.
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Nice.
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Lighten up! This is a stellar board!
Last edited by George; 11-July-2009 at 05:59 AM..
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