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biosketch
A young galileo was a famous art critic and highly talented musician
he started to study for the priesthood, but left and enrolled for a medical degree at the
University of Pisa. He never completed this degree, but instead studied mathematics
In 1592 he was appointed, at a much higher salary, to the position of mathematician at the
University of Padua
Galileo built upon the government philosophies of Aristotle in which the government is
considered like a living organism, rather than that of a machine. It must be able to change
and adapt according to its conditions, and one that has many different parts that cannot
exist without the others.
Galileo determined the core and universal laws of physics. He determined that objects of
different wieght fell at the same rate, which was not accepted by the scientific community
at first. Later, he determined that the Earth rotated on its own axis, and revolved around
the sun, which caused him to be persecuted by the church. He was forced to denouce his
beliefs and findings, and live under house arrest f
In 1633, Galileo was put on trial for accusations of heresy. He was forced to renounce his
beliefs, and remained under house arresst untiln 1642, when he died.
Galileo defended heliocentrism which is “the astronomical model in which the Earth and
planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the solar system”
He also had contributions to the area of physics, and set down the base laws that llater
scientists Isaac newton and Albert Einstien built upon.
Passages from Catholic bible brought against Galileo:
Psalm 93
1
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength,
wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
5
The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
QUOTES:
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of
a single individual.”
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go”
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and
yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/galileo.html
http://galileo.rice.edu/
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Galileo.html
Galileo Galilei