![]() ![]() ![]() What was Galileo referring to? I would gather "it" refers to the Earth. If you wish to put something in the article to the effect that some authors claim that other things were the real reason, in contradiction to the direct evidence, then that would not necessarily be POV though it would be more relevant in another article, like Galileo or Inquisition or Heresy or Heliocentrism.ĭandrake 01:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC) Reply The passage could be restored, with suitable emendation, if someone were to provide some basis for it in historical documents. If that's not condemning it as an error, just exactly what is?Īnd the available text does not mention the Eucharist in any way whatever. He was "vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world." The actual accusation and condemnation pronounced by the Inquisition (see also for example, statements regarding an individual's authority to interpret scripture over the church, the nature of the Eucharist, etc.) The heresies refered to in Galileo's circumstances were theological opinions that he asserted, in his mind, as a result of his scientific beliefs. deviance from geocentric views of the universe have never been condemned as heresy or even error. Shouldn't the translation be "and yet it moves"? The perpetrator has beem smacked and won't be attempting this again any time soon. The painting is obviously not historically correct, because it depicts Galileo in a dungeon, but nonetheless shows that some variant of the " Eppur si muove" anecdote was in circulation immediately after his death, when many who had known him were still alive to attest to it, and that it had been circulating for over a century before it was published.Apologies for the attempted vandalism (and kudos to the bot that caught it). This painting was completed within a year or two of Galileo's death, as it is dated 1643 or 1645 (the last digit is partially obscured). In 1911, the words " E pur si muove" were found on a Spanish painting which had just been acquired by an art collector, Jules van Belle, of Roulers, Belgium. It would have been imprudent for Galileo to have said such a thing before the Inquisition. The earliest biography of Galileo, written by his disciple Vincenzo Viviani in 1655–1656, does not mention this phrase, and records of his trial do not cite it. This other home was also his own, the Villa Il Gioiello, in Arcetri. As such, the phrase is used today as a sort of pithy retort implying that "it doesn't matter what you believe these are the facts".Īccording to Stephen Hawking, some historians believe this episode might have happened upon Galileo's transfer from house arrest under the watch of Archbishop Ascanio Piccolomini to "another home, in the hills above Florence". In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite his recantation, the Church's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction or doctrine of men, the Earth does, in fact, move.
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