beef is what got Galileo arrested! the church wasn’t mad he wrote about heliocentrism (Copernicus did it years before and they were like *shrug emoji*), they were mad he took the pope’s money to write a book about how dumb the pope was the real story is so much funnier and bitchier than the lore
There was a contemporary of Newton who wrote some discovery in secret code and sent it to the papers. Then a year later announced his discovery because he was paranoid Newton would steal credit.
Oh, for sure. The popes (when they had political power) were absolutely wild. The trial still gave me one of my favorite quotes and the most true thing ever said by a Vatican official “To assert that the Earth revolves around the Sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin”
Tycho Brahe lost his nose over a duel about math
yeah don't take someone's money and then write a book where he's the star, only you change his name to "big ol' dummy"
A lot of Queens in Catholic vestments throughout history
The church already had beef with Galileo's dad, since he came up with the heretical idea of equal temperament tuning.
Eppur si muove refers to the Pope’s bowels.
Ok so… I’m actually working on the costumes for a big shiny new rock musical version of this beef *right now*, and yes — big drama! www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/galileo/
With an original rock score and lyrics by Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak, Galileo is an explosive collision of science and faith, truth and power.
He systematically pissed off pretty much every faction of the church in different ways.
For those of us who only know the lore, do you have a recommendation of a book or a podcast or a community theater production to get the actual story in detail?