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"When you ignore science, you end up with egg on your face," Giberson says. "The Catholic Church has had an awful lot of egg on its face for centuries because of Galileo. And Protestants would do very well to look at that and to learn from it."https://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/138957812/evangelicals-question-the-existence-of-adam-and-eve
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (/ˌɡælɪˈleɪoʊ ˌɡælɪˈleɪi, -ˈliːoʊ -/ GAL-il-AY-oh GAL-il-AY-ee, -EE-oh -, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa, in modern-day Italy.[3] Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy",[4] the "father of modern physics",[5][6] the "father of the scientific method",[7] and the "father of modern science".[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
Early life and family
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence), Italy, on 15 February 1564,[15] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, who had married in 1562. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a scepticism for established authority.[16]
Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun) was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted Holy Scripture.[9][10][11]
Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated both the Pope and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point.[9] He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest.[12][13] During this time, he wrote Two New Sciences (1638), primarily concerning kinematics and the strength of materials, summarizing work he had done around forty years earlier.[14]
Albert Einstein later expressed the opinion that Galileo developed his "fascinating arguments" and accepted them uncritically out of a desire for physical proof of the motion of the Earth.[90] Galileo also dismissed the idea, known from antiquity and by his contemporary Johannes Kepler, that the Moon[91] caused the tides—Galileo also took no interest in Kepler's elliptical orbits of the planets.[92][93] Galileo continued to argue in favour of his theory of tides, considering it the ultimate proof of Earth's motion.[94]
Galileo died on what would become david bowie and elvis presley's birthday, January 8. Maybe he reincarnated as them
Galileo continued to receive visitors until 1642, when, after suffering fever and heart palpitations, he died on 8 January 1642, aged 77.
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