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How Did Galileo Change The World

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“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” This quote from Galileo was a great representation of how he lived his life, teaching himself new theories and discovering explanations in physics and astronomy. Galileo greatly changed the world with his ideas and the perfection of the telescope. Many people take for granted the telescope but few realize that Galileo perfected it to see out in space. He challenged the ideas of the church at that time and helped prove that the Earth revolves around the sun and that the Earth moves and rotates. He published his ideas and changed the world of astronomy, physics, and philosophy forever. Without Galileo’s courage to stand up for what he believed in and going …show more content…

He had befriended Pope Urban VIII and in 1624 he had an interview with the pope. He discussed his view, his works and his discoveries. He tried convincing the Pope that his ideas and notions were correct and the ideas that people believed at the time about astronomy and science were wrong. The Pope gave Galileo permission to publish a book about his theories of the universe but only under the condition that the Copernican Theory was treated as a possibility and not as a confirmed fact. “Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?” this quote said from Galileo really describes his stubbornness on his beliefs, even though he agreed to follow the guidelines he just couldn’t tell lies about how he felt. Once the book was published people did not take it lightly as the book did ridicule the church and their beliefs. The pope called for a meeting to examine the book and they found that Galileo did not follow through with his word. He did not keep the Copernican Theory hypothetical instead he made it seem more like it was a fact and the

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In the discourse involving Galileo’s findings and theories, there has been much reference to the works of the pagan Aristotle. While his genius is indisputable, his ignorance is also evident in matters of which we have newfound knowledge. Consequently, his writings on such subjects as astronomy must be considered only under heavy scrutiny. This scrutiny reveals, as shall be demonstrated, Galileo’s rectitude in supporting the Copernican model of the movement of the Earth.

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Galileo continued to study the heliocentric and in 1932, he even published a book called Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World System supporting Copernicus’s theory. ( The Scientific Revolution) . Galileo publishing the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World System supporting Copernicus’s showed that Galileo supported the Heliocentric theory. Galileo teaching the opposite of what the church had to say makes Galileo a

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Later on, Galileo published a book that cleverly took the side of the Copernican theory without disobeying his rules (Frey 393). The Church restricted Galileo because they did not agree with what he was saying. “The Church disapproved of this theory because the holy scriptures state that the Earth is the center, not the sun. As the contents of the Bible were taken literally, the publishing of these books proved, to the Church, that Copernicus and Galileo were sinners; they preached, through their writing that the Bible was wrong” (Leveillee). Since the Church believed that this system was false and erroneous (Hightower 72), Galileo was confined with his writings.

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Galileo was first charged with heresy in the year of 1613, during that time he wrote a letter to a student who he was teaching defending Copernicans theory stating that the Earth revolves around the sun. After Galileo realized that researched had convinced that Copernicus research had convinced him that Copernicus's ideas did not deny the Bible. He explained that the passages in the bible were written from someone in the perspective of the earth and should not be taken seriously. Officials of the Roman Inquisition announced that the beliefs of Copernicus were differing and ordered that the theory in writing or orally.  

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Galileo also doubted the Geocentric theory, where the Sun revolves around the Earth. Galileo thought it was only based on empirical evidence and he could prove it wrong. In 1609 is when he made a telescope that opened up a window for new discoveries. Galileo proved the Geocentric theory wrong and created the Copernican system. With this telescope, Galileo

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Galileo (1564-1642) radically changed our human understanding of the universe. The Polish astronomer Copernicus had wisely waited until after his own death in 1543 to allow a report to be published that stated the sun – not the earth – was the center of the solar system. The Church declared Copernicus a heretic and burned his books. Galileo believed that if he proved that Copernicus was correct by direct observation through his telescope, everyone would accept it as the truth—big mistake! He used his telescope to see four moons of Jupiter, craters on the moon, and the phases of Venus’ orbit around the sun, and in 1609 published his book, The Starry Messenger, which supported Copernicus’ theory.

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Before the Scientific Revolution, the Church had lots of power. This meant that whatever the Church said everyone believed without questioning what the church said. As the scientific revolution started people started to question the church’s reasons behind their actions. Galileo thought that without reasoning behind the Church's decision how do you know they are the right decisions. Instead of blindly following whatever the Church said Galileo came up with his own ideas.

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Galileo made his own version of the telescope and observed the surface of moons. He published a book called Sidereus Nuncius. The churches disapproved, and forced him to submit to the church. Galileo lived his remainder of his life under house arrest. He published his last book, a complication of all his research about physics.

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His opinions in making scientific research were utmost incongruous with the earlier way of theorizing instead of making practical analyses. He tried to explain what happened, not just believing what might happen. Galileo's thoughts were closer to the secularised idea and thus not so supported. In spite of that, Galilei managed to proved Aristotelian physics wrong and thus destroyed the harmony between the church's thoughts and the Aristotelian physics. Despite the fact that Galileo was still in behalf of science, he wasn't brave enough to publish all of his analyses since he had seen the prohibition of Kepler's and Copernicus' books and the denouncing of the heliocentric worldview.

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It was rumored he went to the tower or Pisa and even dropped weights to debunk Ancient Greek Aristotle’s dropping body theory. Later, word of an invention called the telescope hit Galileo’s ears and he was able to vastly improve it. Galileo debunked many other popular theories about astronomy and ultimately proved that the earth and other plants swing around the sun as Nicolaus Copernicus theorized earlier rather than the universe going around the earth like everyone else believed. Soon the Catholic Church demanded that Galileo abandon Copernicus Theory. (2)

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