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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Galileo affair, Catholic Church and evolution, Catholic Church and science, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Condemnations of 1210-1277, Humani generis, Life of Galileo, List of Jesuit scientists, Vatican Observatory, Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, Pontifical Academy of Archaeology, Providentissimus Deus. Excerpt: The Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610, during which Galileo Galilei came into conflict with the Aristotelian scientific view of the universe (supported by the Catholic Church), over his support of Copernican astronomy. In 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), describing the surprising observations that he had made with the new telescope. These and other discoveries exposed severe difficulties with the scientific understanding of the universe that had existed since the beginning of science, and raised new interest in studies such as the heliocentric theory of Copernicus (published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543). Many scientists attacked the theory because it disagreed with Aristotle's model of the universe, as well as several passages of Scripture. Galileo's part in the controversies over theology, astronomy, and philosophy culminated in his trial and sentencing by the Roman Inquisition in 1633 on a grave suspicion of heresy. Galileo began his telescopic observations in the later part of 1609, and by March of 1610 was able to publish a small book, The Starry Messenger (Sidereus Nuncius), relating some discoveries that had not been dreamed of in the philosophy of the time: mountains on the Moon, lesser moons in orbit around Jupiter, and the resolution of what had been thought cloudy masses in the sky (nebulae) into collections of stars too faint to see individually without a telescope. Other observations followed, including the p...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155393551
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 73 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155393554
  • Publisher Date: 30 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Galileo Affair, Catholic Church and Evolution, Catholic Church and Science, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Width: 189 mm


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