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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)
* It means Ptolemy's theories were insufficient to explain some of the movements of the planets, the heliocentric theory of Copernicus and Galileo could.
* The linked article is pretty clear about this.
* See my first point, heliocentric ideas were held by some in Ancient Greece, the Arab world and India.
* Irrelevant, the Nazi's didn't order the burning of Snowhite and the 7 dwarfs either, they did burn other books, and that needs to be mentioned in history.
* Mockery is NOT a crime, only a tyrant would see it as justification for book burnings and censorship.
PLEASE realize that this has nothing to do with today's church or today's Pope, just as we can't blame a 20 year old German for something his grandfather did.
If someone like John Paul II had been pope at the time, this wouldn't have happened.
[[User:Middle Man|Middle Man]]
==The burning of Galileo's books==
==The burning of Galileo's books==