Current Pope thinks Galileo justly tried, convicte

See http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/15/pope.protest/

The more things change, the more they stay the same. With the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical use of the telescope, *could* things get any more interesting? Isn't this guy infallible?

Galileo must be spinning in his grave, in a slightly elliptical motion.... 8)

Jess Tauber

jess tauber said:

See http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/15/pope.protest/

The more things change, the more they stay the same. With the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical use of the telescope, *could* things get any more interesting? Isn't this guy infallible?

Galileo must be spinning in his grave, in a slightly elliptical motion.... 8)

Jess Tauber

If anyone cares, this article covers the particularly Italian politics of this tempest pretty well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/world/europe/16pope.html?ref=europe

This blog has a few quotes from the offending speech:

http://ncrcafe.org/node/1541

Jim