Galileo Speaks Again

[Pat Mustard]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/long-lo...le-church/





This is what happens when you give religious dickheads any kind of temporal power.

Came out all right in the end, I suppose.  Practically everyone has heard of Galileo, but bring up the name of Maffeo Barberini, and you're unlikely to get anything other than a quizzical stare.

Boru

Wasn't he the fellow who had some weirdo who'd gone mad from staring at the sun through a telescope too often committed to house arrest?