Jiro 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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  1. Did it change any of your previously held beliefs?

  2. If you were a well-studied man in the early 17th century Italy, on which side of the heliocentrism debate would you have been, if you didn't had the knowledge of later eras?

  3. Have you heard about Giovanni Battista Riccioli before reading this article?

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Comment author: Jiro 16 February 2015 05:04:26PM *  0 points [-]

2 needs an option "What a well-studied man in the 17th century would have thought is irrelevant to whether the Church was working against science, because remaining in power by suppressing the side which doesn't have well-studied men is just as bad as remaining in power by suppressing the side which does".