Word: simplicio
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...proposition which "necessitated" God to operate in any one fixed way. Galileo abided by the Pope's injunctions, but committed the tactical affront of putting Urban VIII's words and viewpoint in the mouth of the simplest-minded character in the Dialogue, a doctrinaire Aristotelian named Simplicio. The powerful Jesuit faction, which advised the Pope, had no trouble convincing him that he had been made a fool of and that Galileo's views were "potentially more disastrous than Luther or Calvin." In 1633 Galileo stood before the Inquisition...