SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.3: Robert Bellarmine, Binomial Theorem, Church Fathers
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In fact, galileo"s crime (if we must call it that) was to question the authority of the. Cardinal robert bellarmine, a leading theologian of the church, as much as told. Galileo that it didn"t matter what proof he had: physical reality is not to be explained by mathematics but by the scriptures and church fathers. Ultimately, faced with excommunication, galileo was forced to recant to take back his theory and promise to be silent. Galileo died in 1642, having spent the final eight years of his life in enforced seclusion in florence, italy. Some twelve months later in england, isaac newton was born. Newton would salvage galileo"s reputation and bring about the final undoing of the church"s authority over the workings of the natural world. Newton was a brilliant mathematician while still a student at cambridge. University, he discovered the binomial theorem who became a professor at a very young age.
