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Galileo
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Galileo
This paper discusses the factors involved in the acceptability of Galileo's theories in science & theology.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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1985
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"Galileo is perhaps the first scientist, at least since the Greek Archimedes, to be well known to the general public.He is famous partly for his real achievements in physics and astronomy, partly for legendary achievements (such as dropping cannon-balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa), and partly for having been tried for heresy by the Inquisition and compelled to recant his belief, now universally accepted, that the Earth moves in space.
Only in the last few years has the Catholic Church officially "reversed" his conviction. Yet his ideas, in spite of the violent controversy they stirred and the official condemna-tion they brought him, came to be generally accepted by educated opinion within a few years after his trial. Why were these ideas, though pronounced heretical, so widely and quickly accept ... "
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