Re: Top three reasons for optimism about the ID scam

On 4 Dec 2024 19:01:56 GMT, G <g@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]

 
The Galileo affair was essentially a clash of personalities and the
Pope badly misusing his authority to satisfy his personal pique at
being treated as he saw it as an idiot by Galileo and made subject to
public scorn. FWIW, I think things probably ended up going a lot
farther that the Pope intended and that is likely why he converted
Galileo's imprisonment to a very loose form of house arrest in a
luxury villa where he was able to carry on with his other scientific
studies.
 

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I worked for a few years on the Arcetri hill, from there you could see the
place where GG spent his last years, it isC in the valley
below the hill, but definetely not a "luxury villa".
>
G

 Fair enough, I was going by the description in the link below [1] but
I bow to your direct knowledge. Nevertheless, I think that the
difference between "luxury" and  "a nice little place" is somewhat
subjective; certainly far from the '*dungeon* described, for example,
by Voltaire [2].

[1]
https://www.sma.unifi.it/index.php?module=CMpro&func=viewpage&pageid=474&newlang=eng

[2]
"The great Galileo, at the age of fourscore, groaned away his day in
the dungeons of the Inquisition, because he had demonstrated by
irrefragable proofs the motion of the earth"

[Voltaire. 'Descartes and Newton', 1728]