The Galileo controversy was far more about academic politics than about suppression or research by the Christian Church. Galileo was himself a devout Catholic before, during, and after
Checking the Wikipedia link, it isn't difficult to find within a couple clicks that those medieval universities were founded by the Church. The page you linked to states that "The first European Medieval universities were established in Italy and France in the Middle Ages for the study of law, medicine, and theology." Hardly a disproof of the assertion that the Medieval church founded those universities. Hmm...theology, middle ages...I wonder what theology was being taught, and by whom... Check out the names of the colleges at Oxford - All Soul's, Blackfriars, Corpus Christi, Christ Church, Jesus, Magdalen, St Peter's. The religious reference seems clear to me. Casual inquiry into the history of the early Dominicans and the Universities of Naples and Paris (St Albert the Great, St Thomas Aquinas) would show the same thing.
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The Galileo controversy was far more about academic politics than about suppression or research by the Christian Church. Galileo was himself a devout Catholic before, during, and after
Checking the Wikipedia link, it isn't difficult to find within a couple clicks that those medieval universities were founded by the Church. The page you linked to states that "The first European Medieval universities were established in Italy and France in the Middle Ages for the study of law, medicine, and theology." Hardly a disproof of the assertion that the Medieval church founded those universities. Hmm...theology, middle ages...I wonder what theology was being taught, and by whom... Check out the names of the colleges at Oxford - All Soul's, Blackfriars, Corpus Christi, Christ Church, Jesus, Magdalen, St Peter's. The religious reference seems clear to me. Casual inquiry into the history of the early Dominicans and the Universities of Naples and Paris (St Albert the Great, St Thomas Aquinas) would show the same thing.