Anthony's+Week+3

What I found most interesting out of all the pieces on Galileo was “Modern History Source Book: The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633” by Paul Halsall. The fact that the Church had the highest power in this time does not surprise me, but what does is how little is thought of ideas that go against the Church’s way of thinking. Galileo’s actually scientific discoveries are cast off as “absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical.” Granted, as described in “Life of Galileo” by Michael Fowler, Galileo had already been warned by Church officials not to “hold, defend, or teach” the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus before he was put on trial for heresy. I most amazed by how arrogant the Church officials were. Galileo’s discoveries could be physically seen through his telescopes by anyone who looked in the right part of the sky. The fact that his actual visions would be cast aside and labeled as absurd and philosophically false is amazing to me. Galileo was not out to destroy to Church, he even put his daughter in a convent, but because his ideas did not match up, he becomes labeled as an insane heretic. Luckily for the future of the world, his ideas would become seen as true in the coming future.