Re: MD Access to Quality

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 12:25:34 BST

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    Hi Scott,
    Another quibble.

    > Scott:
    > (Galileo had to recant because he claimed that heliocentrism was
    > true, and therefore the Bible was false, which at the time was heresy. He
    > would have been okay if he had just said that the heliocentric model was a
    > better model for producing calculations.)

    Please see my MD Galileo post from last Autumn, which touched on this. If
    Galileo had evidence for backing up his assertions the church authorities
    were prepared to back down. He didn't, so they didn't. (I'm drawing on
    Feyarebend's discussion of it in his Farewell to Reason).

    Regards
    Sam

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