Galileo affair

soon after from a stroke ("Nicolaus Copernicus"). Galileo Galilei supported the Copernican theory. Galileo was a famous Italian engineer and astronomer. He built the telescope and furthered Copernicus’ research. In the same year, he published his book “The Starry Messenger.” The book revealed his discoveries that the moon was not flat but had many mountains and craters. He also found Venus had moon-like phases proving it rotated around the Sun. Galileo tried to teach students his findings were…

It has been alleged that Galileo said those memorable words when he was released after the famous trial during which he was forced to repudiate his convictions about the earth moving around the sun. The message of Eppur si muove ("And yet it moves") was very subtle and important: despite my public deny, and the Church's proclamation on the contrary, the earth does, in fact, move around the sun and not the opposite. Galileo's words have huge epistemological importance: despite the Church's values…

Much like other displays of power, the same lenses we flaunt to remind ourselves how chic we are, unavoidably expose our hidden shortcomings and insecurities about the world around us (Cohen,2014). The telescope which was one of the central instruments of what had been called the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century revealed the unsuspected phenomena in the heavens. It was not until the completion of the thirteenth that lenses existed as they are today, even though their properties…

The scientific community throughout history and the scientific revolution have been focused on the legitimacy of scientific claims, as new advancements constantly change the way the scientists observe and understand principles. That which may have been true in the past could change to a false concept. Rossi explains this through Thomas Edison and his development of the light bulb. “Until the nineteenth-century invention of the light bulb it was an accepted truth that illumination was produced by…

Johannes Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg, in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality. Kepler came from a poor family but his intelligence got him a scholarship to the University of Tübingen to study for the Lutheran ministry. Kepler's family was Lutheran and he adhered to the Augsburg Confession a defining document for Lutheranism. During the Thirty-Years War he refused to sign the Formula of Concord which lead him to be excluded from the sacrament in the Lutheran Church. He…

The culture that i chose to research about their astronomical knowledge and accomplishments is the Mayans. The Mayans believed that astronomy should be a big part of their society and they did just that they had it involved with their religious beliefs the reason they did that was because as quoted in the article Starteach Astronomy “ this ancient science reflected order in the universe and the gods' place in it.” This basically is saying that astronomy explained everything in their society.…

shines brightly for a moment, casting a troupe of dancing shadows upon the cracked plaster ceiling. A sudden gust of wind from the window puts an abrupt end to the flame. Darkness shrouds his solar. ‘I have had enough light for tonight’s work,’ muses Galileo. The large desk at which he sits is now bare. Moments earlier, to his acquiescent silence, agents of the Catholic Church had relieved the great physicist of his writing, as they did every night. ‘If I cannot sate the hunger for knowledge of…

contemptuous in yielding assent to the principal articles that are absolutely matters of faith” (41).If the word of God was altered to cater to the vulgar needs of the populace, then, Galileo argues, it should not be used to determine science and the movement of the heavens. To add strength to this argument, Galileo uses the words of two saints (St. Jerome and St. Agustine). According to St. Jerome, the times in which the Bible was written has an impact on its current validity. He writes,…

the established religion - after Nicolaus Copernicus's revolution. Many scientific discoveries were made by Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler, but their discoveries were not viewed as challenging toward the church. However, some of the discoveries of Galileo Galilei were viewed as controversial. Many of Galileo's discoveries challenged the ideas that were commonly held at the time and his findings contradicted the Bible and the ideas of Aristotle and Plato, so he was chastised by the church.…

Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina, he argues for the support and research of Heliocentrism. Galileo states, “I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age” (Spielvogel 481). Galileo’s heliocentric discovery was that the Sun is at the center of the known Universe and the earth revolves around the sun. This discovery; however, threatened the church and its bible. Galileo writes, “The holy bible can never speak untruth-whenever its true meaning is understood”…