Intellectual Property
Nov. 8, 2001
Welocme to the Digital Dark Ages
In the early 1600s, a gifted math professor at the University of Pisa was summoned to Rome on suspicion of heresy for publishing ideas prohibited by law. Under authority of the Pope, Cardinal Bellarmine warned the scientist, Galileo Galilei, that he should not discuss or defend Copernican theories, which defied the state's official position that the sun revolved around the Earth.
In the early 1600s, a gifted math professor at the University of Pisa was summoned to Rome on suspicion of heresy for publishing ideas prohibited by law. Under authority of the Pope, Cardinal Bellarmine warned the scientist, Galileo Galilei, that he should not discuss or defend Copernican theor...
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