... up until the early 18th Century, controlled the institutes of higher learning where men of deep religious faith studied the sciences. Bertolt Brecht's Galileo Galilei, a great Renaissance scientist, was one of these men, whose ideas were constantly controlled and scrutinized by Church officials if they questioned the ... bible's traditional ways of thought. Although he himself was a Catholic, in the 1600's, Galileo finds himself in conflict with the Catholic Church and other scientists for his discoveries which contradict the Aristotelian astronomy they had for so long ... (2103) that...

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