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  • Italy
    1613
    Galileo Galilei

    One of the first suggestions of heresy that Galileo

    Italy
    1613

    One of the first suggestions of heresy that Galileo had to deal with came in 1613 from a professor of philosophy, poet and specialist in Greek literature, Cosimo Boscaglia. In conversation with Galileo's patron Cosimo II de' Medici and Cosimo's mother Christina of Lorraine, Boscaglia said that the telescopic discoveries were valid, but that the motion of the Earth was obviously contrary to Scripture: Dr. Boscaglia had talked to Madame [Christina] for a while, and though he conceded all the things you have discovered in the sky, he said that the motion of the Earth was incredible and could not be, particularly since Holy Scripture obviously was contrary to such motion.




  • Paris
    Sunday Sep 15, 1613

    Franois VI Birth

    Paris
    Sunday Sep 15, 1613

    Franois VI was a French writer of maxims and memoirs who was born in Paris.




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