Galileo
Galileo Galilei was an Italian philosopher, physicist and astronomer. Considered the father of modern astronomy he was the first to observe and see the solar system as no one has before. He was a teacher of mathematics and physics at the universities of Pisa and Padua. Galileo was a distinguished intellectual many desired to match wits with the scientist. He was a devout Catholic though his observations convinced him to reason a Copernican model of the universe. Scripture had led the Catholic Church to believe in a geocentric model of the universe, not the heliocentric model that the Copernican system is based on. His writings disturbed the Church, which banned teaching of the Copernican system. Continued scientific observation led Galileo to write about his discoveries supporting a heliocentric model. The Inquisition having warned Galileo 15 years before put him on trial for heresy. Galileo denounced his beliefs in the heliocentric system. He did everything the Inquisition asked form him. They found him guilty of heresy and sentenced him to house arrest indefinitely. At the sentencing there is legend he muttered the famous "Eppur si muove" (but it moves anyway). It took 359 years for the Catholic Church to issue anything tha
In his "Treatise on Tides," he theorizes that the Earth travels around the Sun one a year and turns on its axis once a day. The Catholic Church deems the Copernican theory heresy, claiming scripture claims earth is the center of the universe. Galileo writes his book Bodies in Water in Italian, not Latin making it accessible to more readers. Galileo develops his views by empirical evidence. There was no contradiction between his outlooks on the universe and Catholicism. He based his beliefs on what he observed around him in nature. He was a free thinker, questioned everything, and tested it against the obvious laws of nature. " Galileo firm in his views refuses to back down from the Inquisition. He apparently understood scripture and science better then those who persecuted him. He explained that how was the water on the earth moving if the planet was standing still. The Vatican issues an apology, three hundred and fifty years after Galileo's death in 1979, Pope John Paul II asked that the 1633 conviction be annulled. The Catholic Church's views conflict with the Copernican system. Ludovico delle Colombe joins in the fight over ice. Most people of the time conformed to the thinking of there peers, although Galileo did not do this.
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