In the 10,000-12,000 years since humans invented agriculture and settled down, autocracy, theocracy, aristocracy, and fascism have dominated civilizations. From the Greeks to the Romans to the French to the English to the Germans, a line of religious, spiritual, lineal, and political dictatorship occurred for the millennia. Only recently have we begun forcing out of the grips of control in order to achieve global democracy. In the thousands of years we have lived in civilizations, we have only begun to see the light at the end of the tunnel- the light of democracy is finally starting to shine upon us. In the many years of European, Asian, and Middle Eastern dictatorial rule, the greatest rebellions were inspired by the scientists; they were the ones who promoted new ideas and used their new understandings to take down dictators and forever alter religions. The scientists were the ones who risked their own execution while in the human pursuit of truth, who rebelled against the Catholic Church to promote heliocentrism, the correct science of the solar system, and who figured out processes that directly contradicted contemporary theistic belief yet still promoted them as fact. In this episode, we will cover 3 notable scientists whose advancements of science forced them into rebellion against the European Aristocracies and, most notably, the Catholic Church of Europe.

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References:

Galileo Galilei - A Biography by Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei

Galileo Galilei - General Information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

Encyclopedia - Cecco d’Ascoli

https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/c/cecco_dascoli.html

Very General Information on Cecco d’Ascoli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecco_d%27Ascoli

Acerba - Cecco d’Ascoli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerba_(book)

Science and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_the_Catholic_Church

Conflict Thesis Between Science and Religion - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_thesis

Giordano Bruno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

Galileo’s Ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_ship

Galileo Galilei - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/