https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Science-History-Scientific-...
Just in astronomy alone, in the previous century Tycho Brahe was debating against the Copernican models, with his own hybrid model where most of the planets orbit the sun, but the sun orbits the earth. Facts about which model predicted the location of what planets were really important.
The book "The Copernican Revolution" by Kuhn is really interesting for anyone curious to know more about this period.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2cc84vlxe9q8v6ppp6st9/tel.jpg...
And bonus, a replica he made of van Leeuwenhoek's microscope:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gwdb2r71d49pf8m4a5243/micro.j...
The telescope was relatively easy in comparison. He used two lens from his stock of lenses and simply mounted them in a tube. I recall him having fun with the decorations, which are quite detailed.
He was so good at making/repairing ancient technology that the Science museum trusted him to repair some of their most precious items from their old wireless collection. He used vintage brass (modern brass looks wrong), vintage ebonite and authenticity old mahogany. Wish I could remember more. I have a few more of his things: a set of Napier's Bones (an old calculation device) made from chop sticks, an reproduction crystal set, a number of orreries.
My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth
There are a few caveats: since modernity is a child of Protestantism, it reproduces all its dogma, and more importantly, all its pretentious self-flattering propaganda.
The church was actually quite open to helio-centric theories - their criticism was infact quite scientific viz. that Copernicus' theory had errors that exceeded prevalent geo-centric ones. The biggest theological attack came from the Protestants (Calvinists and others alike), which pushed the Church into taking a literalist/fundamentalist stance.
Rationalism, Modernism, Liberalism etc., which are children of Protestantism are so invested in their silly pedigree that they'll go to no extent erase their past.
Amusingly, Liberals were amongst the greatest defenders of slavery and colonialism. As were 'rationalists', the greatest defenders of eugenics (and colonialism).
Heidegger for instances saw through all these moronic pretenses, and despises all these idiotic PR attempts for what they really are. Pity, we don't see the deep malaise here since the only philosophy we are taught now is the silly stuff that came out of the Anglo-American world.
dylan604•5mo ago
To me, it's worse than Dawinism vs intelligent design. Religion is often used to squash inconvenient facts in order to gain/keep control. I never would have thought that in my life time, we'd see this become a major issue instead of just in the smaller niche groups.