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glosangela 's review for:

Aeropagitica by John Milton
2.0

This pamphlet (a plea for freedom to write and publish without requiring a government license beforehand) is very important, of course, but eloquent as it may have been in the seventeenth century, it makes very heavy reading in the twenty-first.

I marked up this quote: "There it was [in Italy] that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."

Because:
(1) I thought it was cool to think of Milton visiting Galileo, which I googled and it turns out he did, in 1638; and
2) It was interesting that Milton felt Galileo a good example since in 1644 had only just died after years of house-arrest, and he was not exculpated by the Catholic church until the twentieth century... When did Protestant Europe decide that Galileo had the right idea? (On this I have not found and easy answer, but maybe one day I will - perhaps it was accepted contemporaneously - or at least by 1644?)