1. On this Day: Galileo Sentenced for Believing Sun Is Center of Universe

Comment #198009 by valleystorm on June 23, 2008 at 3:45 am

Galilio's new theories were uspsetting his fellow academics much more than they were the Church. It was the academics who pressured the Vatican to censure and try him, because according to him, they would have to change everything they were currently teaching. Naturally, academics ever since have much preferred the canard that the Church was to blame. Which it was, albeit reluctantly, for caving in to the pressure. (PS...I'm not a Catholic)

Peggy