Napoleon stole the Roman Inquisition archives and investigated the Galileo case
Napoleon was openly in conflict with the pope, and wanted to discredit him to get a foothold on the French Catholic majority.
Nov 27, 2023-3
Napoleon was openly in conflict with the pope, and wanted to discredit him to get a foothold on the French Catholic majority.
This article shatters a number of myths about the development of Astronomy. It was pretty much unknown to me until recently that Kepler's ellipses also fitted a Geocentric model made by Riccioli, for example.