Science, Jehovah's Watch, wrong hint at anti-science, religion and clock. The closest one is the view of Roman Catholic on heliocentric theory in the seventeenth century.
Sunset at Night－is natural－1
But Sunset on the Dawn
Reverses Nature－Master－
So Midnight's－due－at Noon.
Eclipses be－predicted－5
And Science bows them in－
But do one face us suddenly－
Jehovah's Watch－is wrong.
But Sunset on the Dawn
Reverses Nature－Master－
So Midnight's－due－at Noon.
Eclipses be－predicted－5
And Science bows them in－
But do one face us suddenly－
Jehovah's Watch－is wrong.
(F.427/J.415)
[1, 2] Sunset at Night, Sunset on the Dawn:: a scene that one clock tells the time in the northern and southern hemisphere.
[3] Reverses:: a hint on two hemispheres.
[5] Eclipses:: astronomical events; the science being darkened.
[6] Science bows them in:: science includes the eclipse with reverence, but Roman Catholic not.
[7] one face:: one flat surface of the earth. do, suddenly:: do the test of clock in one surface in an instant.
[8] Jehovah's Watch:: His clock; implicitly, the depressed of heliocentric theory.
Cardinal Bambarini, who dissented from the decision of the Inquisition, became Pope Urban the Eighth. He was the friend of Galileo, and not opposed to the heliocentric theory. Galileo's friends under this Pope were everywhere encouraged and promoted, and it seemed that one needed only to advocate his doctrine to be sure of the Pope's favor. Galileo was elated, and published his Dialogues in which he brings out the theory, contrary to the obligation he had taken, and in a manner the most intemperate, and the most satirical and contemptuous to authority. He was accordingly cited in 1633 to appear at Rome, and was condemned, — the question turning on his contempt for authority, and not at all on the truth or falsity of his doctrine. ─ Brownson's Review (1845)