Wait... what? This was not about Galileo's faith of lack thereof. It was about the fact the the church repressed his scientific findings because it did not match their view on faith. Facing DEATH, you're damn right he recanted and kept his further findings secretive. Dominican friar Giordano Bruno did the same and was burned at the stake in Rome in 1600 for his trouble.Donna Matrix wrote:Lot of people kept there faiths during the Inquisition. This article does not state that Galileo lost his faith because of the Church's behavior. In fact, the article leads one to the conclusion that Galileo was in discussion with the Church and was trying to persude them otherwise. I grant that the Church had more power than he, and Galileo suffered it.
But nowhere did it state that Galileo had private diaries that denied his faith.Read your history. It is well known that scientists of that era wrote church supporting stuff in their publicly accessable works out of fear of the church and reserved their true thoughts to their private diaries that we am now uncovering.
The second link was about Religion and Science and how religion influenced science. It was not about Galileo per se.
"In late 1614 or early 1615, one of Caccini's fellow Dominicans, Niccolò Lorini, acquired a copy of Galileo's letter to Castelli, which he considered of sufficiently doubtful orthodoxy to bring to the attention of the Inquisition. In February 1615 he accordingly sent a copy to the Secretary of the Inquisition, Cardinal Sfondrati, with a covering letter critical of Galileo's supporters.[4]
A few weeks later, on March 19th, Caccini turned up at the Inquisition's offices in Rome to denounce Galileo for his Copernicanism and various other alleged heresies supposedly being spread by his pupils[5]."
A private letter was taken and used as evidence in his first trial.
Also, he secretly passed work on to his daughter Maria Celeste, who lived in a convent, and she helped him write and publish his works under the nose of the church.
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