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Copernicus
Taken with a Nikon D700 and a Nikon 50mm f1.8
Griffith Observatory, L.A.
Copernicus proposed a theory (1514) and put it in book form (1543) that the Earth revolved around the sun, a theory now known to be true. However, the Church disapproved of it because the Holy Scriptures state that the Earth is at the center, not the Sun. As the contents of the Bible were taken literally, the publishing of these books proved, to the Church, that Copernicus and Galileo were sinners; they preached, through their writing, that the Bible was wrong.
During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, fear of heretics spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated the Catholic Church. They persecuted scientists who formed theories the Church deemed heretical, and forbade people from reading any books on those subjects by placing the books on the Index of Prohibited Books.
Copernicus
Taken with a Nikon D700 and a Nikon 50mm f1.8
Griffith Observatory, L.A.
Copernicus proposed a theory (1514) and put it in book form (1543) that the Earth revolved around the sun, a theory now known to be true. However, the Church disapproved of it because the Holy Scriptures state that the Earth is at the center, not the Sun. As the contents of the Bible were taken literally, the publishing of these books proved, to the Church, that Copernicus and Galileo were sinners; they preached, through their writing, that the Bible was wrong.
During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, fear of heretics spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated the Catholic Church. They persecuted scientists who formed theories the Church deemed heretical, and forbade people from reading any books on those subjects by placing the books on the Index of Prohibited Books.