In the Middle Ages, Scientists Rebelled Against the Catholic Church to Advocate for their Discoveries- Here are a few Scientists whom the Catholic Church Prosecuted for Their Discoveries

In the 10,000-12,000 years since humans invented agriculture and settled down, autocracy, theocracy, aristocracy, and fascism have dominated civilizations. From the Greeks to the Romans to the French to the English to the Germans, a line of religious, spiritual, lineal, and political dictatorship occurred for the millennia. Only recently have we begun forcing out of the grips of control in order to achieve global democracy. In the thousands of years we have lived in civilizations, we have only begun to see the light at the end of the tunnel- the light of democracy is finally starting to shine upon us. In the many years of European, Asian, and Middle Eastern dictatorial rule, the greatest rebellions were inspired by the scientists; they were the ones who promoted new ideas and used their new understandings to take down dictators and forever alter religions. The scientists were the ones who risked their own execution while in the human pursuit of truth, who rebelled against the Catholic Church to promote heliocentrism, the correct science of the solar system, and who figured out processes that directly contradicted contemporary theistic belief yet still promoted them as fact. In this episode, we will cover 3 notable scientists whose advancements of science forced them into rebellion against the European Aristocracies and, most notably, the Catholic Church of Europe. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or corrections, please email me using the address provided: [email protected] References: Galileo Galilei - A Biography by Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei Galileo Galilei - General Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei Encyclopedia - Cecco d’Ascoli https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/c/cecco_dascoli.html Very General Information on Cecco d’Ascoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecco_d%27Ascoli Acerba - Cecco d’Ascoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerba_(book) Science and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_the_Catholic_Church Conflict Thesis Between Science and Religion - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_thesis Giordano Bruno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno Galileo’s Ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_ship Galileo Galilei - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/