Under the lights we accredited the false idea of an forgetful means of the teachings of antiquity. The trial of violaian academics Giacomotto-Charra and Sylvie NONY traces the exciting story of this myth.
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Did Galilee exclaimed when he tries “and yet she is round”? No, as everyone knows, the legend lends him these words: “And yet, she turns!” Sentenced in 1633, the Italian astronomer defended the theory that the earth was moving around the sun, according to the heliocentrist model developed A century earlier by COPERNIC. Yet, highlights Violaine Giacomotto Charra and Sylvie NONY in the flat land, many persists to believe that Galilee, but also Christopher Columbus would have endured the wrath of the Church because these precursors would have wanted to demonstrate, against their time, that the earth was round . In fact, the thing is universally heard: in the Middle Ages, we thought that the earth was flat.
The two academics could have been satisfied, as they do admirably, to take over the many scientific studies that have shown the opposite. Old two thousand five hundred years, the idea of sphericity of the earth, set out by Plato and Aristotle at the IV e century Av. J.-C. and mathematically demonstrated by Eratosthenes (V. 276-v. 194 BC), was admitted, transmitted and taught throughout the Middle Ages in the cathedral schools and then at the university.
“head down”
There are many fathers of the Latin Church, like Lactance (250-325) and St. Augustine (354-430), to dispute that antipodes could be populated by “men who feet up and head down “. But it was not a matter of denying the very existence of the antipodes, and therefore the rotation of the earth, but to reject the idea that men could, somewhere, escape the revelation. As for the few members of the East Church who rejected the Sphericity of the Earth, including Cosmas (death in 550), they were condemned as heretics because Nestorians, and their texts were not broadcast before the XVIII e century.
But, for Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Sylvie NONY, establish that an idea is wrong is not enough. It must be done history. But this myth appears under the lights which, exhuming cosmas and diverting the question of antipodes, accrediting the idea of an forgetful means of the teachings of antiquity, but also born a more or less voluntary confusion between this fable and the Real condemnation of heliocentrism by the Church. In the nineteenth century, during the quarrel of Darwinism in the United States, or the XX e century, in France, during the separation of the Church and the State, the myth got instrumentalisation. Galilee became the martyr of an obscurantist church, Columbus shatters her from a knowledge acquired by the experience against dogma.
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