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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Galileo literally proved the earth is not the center of the universe, and the church got mad and threw him in the dungeon.

This is legendary.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They weren't mad about what he said, they were mad he was disrespectful to them.

[–] don@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

According to the wiki:

Tozzetti later wrote that Capponi's explanation for taking the two fingers as relics was "because Galileo wrote so many beautiful things with them."

Galileo’s middle finger

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 week ago

It wasn't taken with that meaning in mind (which didn't exist at the time), but sure it's a curious coincidence.

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yay someone else has seen it. I mention it to others and I'm just looked at oddly. Florence, really in collecting bits of dead ppl and putting them in cases.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

Is it aimed in the direction of the Vatican?

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reminds me of an item in Elden Ring...

[–] dumbass@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago

I need to work out how I can do this, flip off anyone who looks at it.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Fitting tho.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

https://youtu.be/v7a65AvELdU

seems liek Galileo was eventually right in his dismissal of geocentrism, however his actual arguments for it were kind of weak and didn't really prove his point.