Credit to Pope Gregory’s Jesuit priests for figuring out the Julian calendar needed updating – before telescopes, and while Christendom was sure the Sun orbited Earth.
Fifty years later, Jesuits would prosecute Galileo for saying (and flaunting) that Earth orbits the Sun.
Credit to Pope Gregory’s Jesuit priests for figuring out the Julian calendar needed updating – before telescopes, and while Christendom was sure the Sun orbited Earth.
Fifty years later, Jesuits would prosecute Galileo for saying (and flaunting) that Earth orbits the Sun.