Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was a great man of science. His discoveries and achievements are still widely use today in modern science. His belief, which is now a know fact, that the earth revolves around the sun, was, to say the least, a passion of his. His idea that the earth was in motion was a radical new idea at the time and was not popular by many. This account of his life shows us that the human race in its past was not as evolved as it is today, meaning that there was no open-mindedness to new ideas and discoveries. This shows us how our race once was, and how we grew from our stubborn ways.Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, which is now a part of Italy. By will of his father Galileo studied medicine at the University of Pisa, but his real interests were always in mathematics and natural philosophy. He is mostly remembered for his work on free falling objects, his use of the telescope, and his experimentation. He taught mathematics for a period, first privately in Florence when he wrote on hydrostatics and natural motions but did not publish, then at the University of Pisa, in 1592. This is where he showed students the error of Aristotle's belief that the speed at which an object falls is proportional to
1. Galileo Galilei; Discoveries and opinions of Galileo: Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City N.Y., 1957. In the 1870s, the full publication of Galileo's trial documents was released and they showed that the Roman Catholic Church was completely responsibility for Galileo's. Pope John Paul II opened an investigation into the astronomer's condemnation, calling for its reversal, in 1979, and finally October 1992 a papal commission acknowledged the Vatican's error. If the great Roman Catholic Church can accept the fact that that Bible is not completely accurate and that they show a bit of open-mindedness, then we as a people know that we have advanced far. In 1624 Galileo began to write a book that he wanted to call "Dialogue on the Tides," in which he discussed the Copernican hypotheses in relation to the physics of tides. In 1630 Roman Catholic censors at Rome licensed the book for printing, but they changed the title to "Two Chief World Systems." It was published in Florence in 1632. However, despite two official licenses, Galileo was summoned to Rome by the Inquisition to stand trial for suspicion of heresy. Copernicanism was in contradiction with Scripture, and in 1616 Galileo was given an official warning that he was not to defend Copernicanism either orally or in writings. "Then we would indeed be seen to have contended not for the sense of divine Scriptures, but for our own ideas by wanting something of ours to be the sense of Scripture when we should rather want the meaning of Scripture to be ours." (Galileo 206) Galileo produced a certificate signed by Cardinal Bellarmine, whom had died, stating that Galileo, under the 1616 edict, had been subjected to no further restriction than applied to any Roman Catholic. Even though no signed document contradicting this was ever found, Galileo was nevertheless compelled in 1632 to renounce his Copernican beliefs and was sentenced to life imprisonment, however due to his old age they placed him on permanent house arrest at his villa at Arcetri. He was also forbidden to publis
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