Romashka comments on The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Val 15 February 2015 08:54:14PM *  3 points [-]

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Comment author: Romashka 16 February 2015 11:47:18AM 0 points [-]

To judge whether the Catholic Church was actively hindering science at all, not just for the express purpose of keeping power, I would need to read about what the Church did or did not do with the aim of hindering science. Galileo was a very interesting person, but I have no way to determine how representative was his situation of the general state of affairs, especially if he was friends with the Pope.