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The Crime Of Galileo Galilei - Biography

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« on: March 26, 2008, 08:04:02 pm »









If you are standing on the earth watching the Sun rise and set you can just as easily imagine the heavens revolving around you, as the earth rotating on its axis and revolving around the sun. Besides, the perfectly circular orbits described by Copernicus didn't really fit the true motion of the heavens all that much better than the traditional model. The real problem of course had to do not with science but with theology and that is what eventually got Galileo in trouble.

Underlying the tenacity with which the Church of Galileo's day clung to what to us were the utterly indefensible theories blamed on poor old Aristotle was a rather curious notion. It was this. The correct way to understand how the world functioned was to probe divine revelation. There really was only one truth and that was God's truth. If you should have any idea that did not square with God's truth then it obviously came from that other fellow, the Devil.

In such a climate any theory you might dream up, even if it was supported by actual observation, had to be wrong if in some way it violated divine law. End of story! Galileo should have known better. He knew the rules but as I said before, he tended to march to his own drummer. For one thing, the Copernican model worked much better to explain his theory on tides (that book again, remember). So he made a bold decision. 
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