Heliocentrism

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…

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.…

Ever wonder who discovered that the Sun is in the middle of the solar System? Nicholas Copernicus was a Renaissance scientist. He discovered that the Earth was NOT in the center of the universe, but rather the sun in the middle of the solar system. During Copernicus’s life events; his important influences, discoveries, and the way we use his discoveries are extremely important to us today. Copernicus had important life events that not only changed his life, but changed the world’s future.…

It was a warm June day in Rome. Francesco Niccolini, a Tuscan ambassador, and Galileo Galilei, an aging mathematician, sat in the Villa Medici awaiting their call to the Holy Office. It had been months since the beginning of his trial with the Roman Inquisition and Galileo was ready to be finished with the ordeal. He had been ill since the first session of his interrogation back in April and his condition had continued to worsen. Niccolini had already been informed of the old man’s sentence,…

Man Isn’t Center of the Universe Anymore? Before the sixteenth century, the common knowledge of astronomy was based off the Pythagoras, Aristotle, and the Ptolemaic model. They said the Earth was the center of the universe and everything, including the sun, planets, and the heavenly spheres rotated about its center. Aristotle established the principle that there were only seven planets considered wandering stars: Earth, moon, sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Anything besides these stars…

The common misconception that science and faith are in constant conflict, each hoping to disprove the other, is prevalent in the minds of so many people today that it has led to the belief that one must be wrong and the other right. Most people would be quick to side with science since they can see the visible signs that science bases its conclusions off of. However, science and faith are not in conflict and neither hopes to disprove the other. Rather science and Christian faith work together in…

From his work in various fields such as astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy, Galileo Galilei is widely known as one of the key individuals of the Renaissance era’s Scientific Revolution, What many people do not know, however, is that Galileo was a victim of the Roman Inquisition. The documents of this trial, named “From the Later-Trial Documents (1632-33)”, were requested to be recorded by His Holiness Pope Urban VIII, and written mostly by the Holy Order. Galileo may have also written, or at…

After four hundred years of its invention, it became an important scientific instrument, a symbol of science. All through the 400 years history, this invention changed our view of the universe, our thoughts, societies and even our thoughts. This incredible scientific instrument has been built by the famous astronomer and philosopher from Pisa, Galileo Galilei. This invention can make far objects appear closer when viewed through one end of its long pipe. It was a telescope. The telescope’s…