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* "It also didn't help that he mocked the Pope in the form of a fictitious character named Simplicio." - Why did you remove this?
* "It also didn't help that he mocked the Pope in the form of a fictitious character named Simplicio." - Why did you remove this?
Please justify these edits. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 14:07, 4 May 2007 (EDT)
Please justify these edits. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 14:07, 4 May 2007 (EDT)
==The burning of Galileo's books==
I have now done some research into this, and come up with two contemporary sources that say this happened. One is Antonio Badelli, writing in June 1633, quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=1P6fF-bE4CAC&pg=PA470&lpg=PA470&dq=%22antonio+badelli%22&source=web&ots=ElSe01gLA1&sig=OgMEk6koepPFJ0q-gLZ0jISN69k]
“Galileo was made to abjure Wednesday morning in the Minerva Convent in the presence of all the Cardinals of the Congregation and they burned before his eyes the book where he deals with the motion of the earth.” I found this in another couple of sources in the original Italian: ''Testo della sentenza, Roma, 22 giugno 1633. ''Il Galileo fu abiurato mercordì mattina nel Convento della Minerva alla presenza di tutti i Cardinali della Congregazione del Santo Uffizio, e gli abbruciarono in faccia il suo libro, dove tratta del moto della terra.''
Another source is Descartes, who learned of the condemnation of Galileo's book as he was arranging to publish Le Monde. He wrote to Mersenne: ''I had intended to send you Le Monde as a New Year gift...but in the meantime I tried to find out in Leiden and Amsterdam whether Galileo World System was available, as I thought I had heard that it was published in Italy last year. I was told that it had indeed been published, but that all copies had been burned at Rome, and that Galileo had been convicted and fined. I was so surprised by this that I nearly decided to burn all my papers, or at least let no one see them. For I couldn't imagine that he--an Italian and, I believe, in favor with the Pope--could have been made a criminal, just because he tried, as he certainly did, to establish that the earth moves...I must admit that if this view is false, then so too are the entire foundations of my philosophy, for it can be demonstrated from them quite clearly. And it is so integral to my treatise that I couldn't remove it without making the whole work defective. But for all that, I wouldn't want to publish a discourse which had a single word that the Church disapproved of; so I prefer to suppress it rather than to publish it in a mutilated form.''
This was quoted in several different sources, but I took this one from [http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/distance/descartes2/back1.html] as being a solid academic reference. I found it in many other sources as well, including but not limited to: [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557587_3/Galileo.html], [http://books.google.com/books?id=Z7xFT0aKT0YC&pg=PA140&dq=galileo+book+burned&sig=EUpj4xCz1BRIru2QhCFbx9LrJb0],
[http://books.google.com/books?id=Bo-uPfS5YjwC&pg=PA233&dq=galileo+book+burned&sig=Dl-zTfjlQQTwETB3OG3gg70eAs8],
[http://books.google.com/books?id=9t5T-aFQ7QMC&pg=PA102&dq=galileo+book+burned&sig=D0xhsZbRuxoJLhMDBCePPkQyBh4],
[http://books.google.com/books?id=Z7xFT0aKT0YC&pg=PA140&dq=galileo+book+burned&sig=EUpj4xCz1BRIru2QhCFbx9LrJb0],
[http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7997/galileo.html], [http://space.about.com/cs/astronomerbios/a/galileobio_2.htm], [http://library.thinkquest.org/J001665/Galileo.html], [http://galileoplayers.com/fun2.html].
I omitted sources that were obviously anti-Catholic, and I omitted many sources where the main subject of the page or the book was not either scientific or historical and the assertion was simply made in passing in another context. --[[User:Britinme|Britinme]] 22:23, 4 May 2007 (EDT)