The Irish standard., 1910-02-19
THE MUSTY STORY OF
CALLED REVIVED
The Italian Astronomer and
Scientist Not So Harshly
Treated as Some Protestant
Historians Have Written
Spent Only Twenty Days in
Luxurious Apartments and
Not Six Years in a Dungeon
--Pensioned by the Pope.

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--Pensioned by the Pope.
The Telegram Of Salt Lake CITY
recently said:
Scholars generally know the story
of Gallileo, how he first declared that
the world was round, and told the story
of the universe as it is understood to-
day, and how, under bigotry, they gave
him the choice of retracting or sharing
the fate of Bruno, who was burned at
the stake; show he did retract, but as
he came out from the hall and looked
at the sun, he smurmured to himself:
But it does move.'"
In reply to the above the Intermoun-
tain Catholic of the same city says:
1t would be difficult to compress
within the same space, at any time or
by any one, greater number Of his
torical inaccuracies than occur in these
few lines. The venerable and versatile
editor of the Telegram hasn't,a particle
of bigotry In hig entire anatomy, and
tention of misstating facts or wound
ing the susceptibilities of his Catholic
| readers.
We will go further, and declare It
to he our settled conviction that if
!, ...inKincihle ignorance OF Catholic doe
! trine and Catholic history may save a
man from damnation, the salvation Of
i the editor Of the Telegram is assured.
And now, wecome Calico.
| Some years ago, when we were win
tering in Rome, we brought Canadian
Protestant gentleman, dyed in the
wool Presbyterian, with us to- inspect
Ga.ileo's prison. He was effpsive III
his admiration of the frescoes and dec
orations Of the rooms, the gardens
which the windows overlook, and the
fair prospect Of the charming land
scape which they command. Before
leaving told him that these were the
/, rooms in which Calico was impris-
oned. II wish to heaven some one
would imprison me here" he exclaim-
ed. "By the way" asked my guest,
chow long was Calico confined here?''
1.-THE now published letters of Calico"
I replied, "prove that his imprison-
ment in these splendid apartments was
for twenty days." "Twenty days! !
always understood he was detained in
a dungeon for six years" "Why,"
answered, even Sir David Brewster.
in his life Of the astronomer, reduced
it to one year, but he had not then
seen Galileo's own letters" 's
And now let us see what was the
attitude of the sovereign pontiffs to-
wards the astronomical theories linked
with the name Of Calico. Let US have
the truth. Calico was not the frts
1 man to scientifically advance the
earth's motion around the sun. Tha
first among the men Of the middle ages
who in scientific way propounded the
theory was Nicholas of Cusa. Was HI
condemned for his scientific discovery;
What did Rome do to him? Rome
made him cardinal, promoted him to the
Roman purple in 144s. A century latel
came Copernicus. who by his wonder.
full researches, gave his name to thi.
solar system, an honor which bigot,
claim for Calico, and for which. theJ
tell us, he was condemned and i'm.
prisoned. What did Rome do to Co.
pernicus? Rome made him profes.
sor Of astronomy at the university
|, conferred rich ecclesiastical prefer.
ments upon him, and in gratitude fol
the honors done him, Copernicus de.
dicated to Pope Paul III. his famou,
book on the motion Of the Planets" 1.
II which he advances the theory Of tn.
earth's revolution. "Then Calico wa,
not condemned for contending that tn,
i earth revolved around the SUM
i,shucks. no scholar asserts or believe,
!, that rot. CALLED, like Carlysle ant
;. many other great students, was cranl
| and inflated with his own Importance
. In the seventeenth century GaliIe,
! won the applause OF the learned mel
|. OF Europe by his scientific discoveries
. but his resources were exhausted an,
he became overwhelmed with dent. TIL
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