In the past discussion, we were divided into small groups and asked to talk about a section that we thought was interesting from Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess. Our group decided to talk about Galileo’s second paragraph, specifically the beginning portion of that paragraph where Galileo writes that men who had a background in astronomical and physical science immediately accepted his idea of a heliocentric universe, while those who denied his discovery only did so because of their predetermined image of the universe on account of a widely accepted novel (the Bible). Essentially, Galileo became viewed as a figure that challenged the authority of the church, resulting in him being threatened by the church and inevitably house arrest.
