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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| I think it's a bigger point than that as the word imprison gives the impression that Galileo was dragged away in the middle of the night to somewhere a la Count of Monte Cristo and made to subsist on rice and gruel, when really the church just wanted to keep him from publishing stuff and made him stay at home. In spite of the strict definition of imprison, the etymology is clear. Using words ingenuously like that gives rise to myths and false impressions because most people don't care to check out the details for themselves. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: ... |
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Fair enough. To put things into proper perspective, I'll add this:
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-Galileo was required to recant his heliocentric ideas, which were condemned as "formally heretical";.
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| He was ordered imprisoned |
; the sentence was later commuted to house arrest.
-His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future. |
Perhaps my characterization was wrong, but to say:
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| the church just wanted to keep him from publishing stuff and made him stay at home. |
is also, as I see it, a mischaracterization. |
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