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Letter To The Grand Duchess Christina By Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei was a brilliant man born in the city of Florence, Italy in 1564 in a climate of intolerance. In 1610, he discovered a new tool that will move him forward into his knowledge, which was a similar tool to the modern telescope. This tool allowed him to discover Jupiter and its four moons. This astonishing discovery leads him to the conclusion that the universe does not consist of an Earth-centered, but a sun-centered universe. After a diner between Castelli, Duke Cosimo II de ‘Medici and his mother Grand Duchess Christina in 1613, the Grand Duchess had doubts about Galileo being a heretic because the Church believed in a Earth-centered universe. Galilei who practices Christianity clarified his intentions about science, and that he was not against the Church. He explained so in an open letter to the Grand Duchess Christina called Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, which was published in 1615. This essay will demonstrate why the Bible should not be used against Galileo’s scientific conclusion (the sun-centered universe where the Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun) such as: the language of the Bible differs to the language of science, the content about science in the Bible is little, and nature …show more content…

Science is demonstrated clearly and much more reasonably than the Bible, which talks about faith, that is beyond reasoning and cannot be justified but by the words of God. A scientific conclusion can clarify the written words of God by nature’s actions in order for the people to understand its difficult language. Also, scientific conjectures can be clarified with the help of the Bible because “two truths cannot contradict one another”(186) explains Galilei referring to the Bible and science. Therefore, neither science nor the Bible can be wrong. That being the case, when the Bible is well understood and interpreted, it goes in harmony with

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