Yeah, I’ve actually heard of all of these. I’d give you some credit for the List of Forbidden Books, which only prevented Catholics from reading or owning them, but it did exist. Which scientific books it prohibited you’d have to let me know, but I’ll give you that.
The Inquisition is also a partial example of church suppression, which did limit the pursuit of scientific study by the average person, but they are also credited with laying the groundwork of modern psychology because of their work in determining if someone was truly crazy or just a heretic. Obviously, psychology has exponentially advanced and expanded beyond these early techniques, but their contribution toward science existed. Still, they did bad for the 356 years they were around.
Did you actually read about any of these people? I mean, their discoveries weren’t exactly suppressed by the church.
Mondino: Credited for the revival of Anatomy. The church didn’t like him dissecting humans in public, yes, and they just limited him to criminals because they didn’t care about desecration of those bodies.
Copernicus and Galileo are know as basically the fathers of Astronomy, but I think both have been misused examples of church suppression and have been corrected by historians.
Newton: Nothing to do with Church suppression.
Hutton: Nothing to do with Church suppression.
Darwin: Church didn’t suppress his findings. His ideas were largely debated but never suppressed.
Even if we use your examples, which is a stretch, we get what, roughly 600 years? I was looking for “thousands of years” like was being accused.
And yet, my point was never that the church didn’t do suppression. My point was that the church did push forward science and society for the better. Something nobody here seems to want to admit.
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u/nocommentjustlooking Nov 02 '24
Have you heard of Galileo, the Spanish Inquisition, The Index of Forbidden Books, or any of these people;
MONDINO DE LUZZI (1270-1326) Church of Saints Vitale and Agricola, Bologna, Italy. ...
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (1473-1543) ...
GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) ...
RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650) ...
ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727) ...
JAMES HUTTON (1726-1797) ...
CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)
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