{"id":37,"date":"2009-06-02T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T09:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/06\/galileo-and-the-holy-inquisition.html"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:16:32","slug":"galileo-and-the-holy-inquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/06\/galileo-and-the-holy-inquisition.html","title":{"rendered":"Galileo and the Holy Inquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/scienceandthesacred\/Telescoping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Telescoping.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/202\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/Telescoping-thumb-300x451-5441.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><b>Source: <\/b>Mohammed Al-Naser \/ All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">This year marks the 400th anniversary of telescope astronomy, first begun by Galileo&#8217;s observations of the night sky and the publication of his treatise <i>Sidereus Nuncius<\/i> in 1610.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Few realize, however, that Galileo&#8217;s publication of this treatise placed him at great risk with the Inquisition of the time.&nbsp; He and his printer Baglioni were forced to present a copy of the manuscript for approval before publication.&nbsp; However, unlike his later run-ins with the Holy Inquisition, things passed smoothly.&nbsp; The Venice Council approved the manuscript and allowed publication.&nbsp; Part of this could be that Galileo slipped in a few last minute observations &#8212; including the moons orbiting Jupiter which would have caused quite a stir &#8212; after the manuscript had been submitted.&nbsp; Regardless, the decision points to the fact that not every matter of science and religion met with a head-on clash, even during the times of the Inquisition.&nbsp; Instead, thanks to their agreement, we have benefited from 400 years of telescopy, showing us the countless wonders of the universe around us.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers to <i>Science Magazine<\/i> can read more on Galileo, <i>Sidereus Nuncius<\/i>, and the legacy of the telescope in the article &#8220;Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Telescope Astronomy&#8221; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/current.dtl\">latest issue<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mohammed Al-Naser \/ All Rights Reserved This year marks the 400th anniversary of telescope astronomy, first begun by Galileo&#8217;s observations of the night sky and the publication of his treatise Sidereus Nuncius in 1610.&nbsp; Few realize, however, that Galileo&#8217;s publication of this treatise placed him at great risk with the Inquisition of the time.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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