The World doesn’t revolve around Galileo after all – by Ian Duffield
Saturday’s Times in its ‘The last word’ (p. 31) quoted Steven Jay Gould, the palaeontologist: “A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right” This perpetuates the strongly-embedded cultural myth that Galileo was persecuted by the Church as a truth-telling…