01-11-2017, 03:11 AM
For some reason, I keep being reminded of the Galileo affair.
I can see what you mean. His detractors were a dedicated bunch, and went through no small effort to keep the truth from the world. Mainly for their own vested interests:
Galileo's initial discoveries were met with opposition within the Catholic Church, and in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be formally heretical. Heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to refrain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas.
Galileo complained that some of the philosophers who opposed his discoveries had refused even to look through a telescope.
"Only fear real things, such as minds full of delusions." -Last Aphorisms
I can see what you mean. His detractors were a dedicated bunch, and went through no small effort to keep the truth from the world. Mainly for their own vested interests:
Galileo's initial discoveries were met with opposition within the Catholic Church, and in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be formally heretical. Heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to refrain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas.
Galileo complained that some of the philosophers who opposed his discoveries had refused even to look through a telescope.
"Only fear real things, such as minds full of delusions." -Last Aphorisms
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”