Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Flamel Versus Protestants and Aristocrats
As a Catholic, Nicolas Flamel would not have much religious agreement with Protestants. In most senses, the matter that was the root of Galileo's trial (heliocentrism vs. geocentrism) was scientific rather than religious. However, there were consequences (even religious ones) to Galileo's denial of a traditional view. Heliocentrism may have brought to question the Biblical interpretation of the creation of the earth and mankind, beginning with the idea that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe. The Protestant Reformation itself was inspired by non-traditional (non-Catholic) reinterpretations of the Bible though it was also inspired but the desire to extinguish the corruption of the clergy. That being said, Galileo and Copernicus' ideas may have been too forward-moving for either the Catholics and the Protestants. Denying the belief that earth is the center of the inverse was not the intent of Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses, John Calvin and his support of predestination, and the pre-Protestant Jan Huss.
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