... were not truing to go against his faith which is what the church thought. That why they were so insulted by the books Galileo wrote. Galileo had done many experiments testing new ideas based on Science, but was not intending to make the church feel insulted. There were many reasons for ... on it and see if there's another way to prove it. Copernicus's Theory was that the planets, stars, and the earth all revolved around the sun. Galileo believed in this for the fact that he did a bunch of different experiments to prove this was true. He found out that Jupiter had four moons and ... chur...

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... Bible had specific text implying that the earth is flat, these great thinkers and their ideas were condemned. In the early 1600s, when Copernicus and Galileo defied the Catholic geocentric belief of earth being stationary and the center of the universe they were also condemned. The idea of a heliocentric system in ... a result these scientists were again put down. Even though the video shown in class sugarcoated this event and proclaimed that Galileo was treated with much luxury and respect, the documents reproduced in Fable and by every other fully informed writer show that the Inquisit...

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... a lens to attract light was developed by a Dutch optician in 1608 named Hans Lippershey. Two other inventors were Zacharias Jannssen and Jacob Metius. However, Galileo perfected the refracting telescope within a year and he became the first one to point a telescope up to the sky for observation. Refracting telescope: Refraction refers ... would build the eyepiece onto the side so that the light will come out the side. 3 #) Four telescopic discoveries made by Galileo were: 1) Venus goes through phases similar to those of the moon. This is significant because it proved that Venus goes arou...

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... the sun. Incredible! Being such a large and bright planet, Jupiter was able to be seen and was known to exist even back in the prehistoric times. Galileo, living from 1564-1642, discovered that Jupiter had four large moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. This was discovered in 1610. We now know today that ... Jupiter has thirty-nine known satellites, the most in the solar system. With the discovery of the four large moons by Galileo, it showed that there was a center of motion not apparently centered on the Earth, which was the believed idea of the time. This theory ended up ... the...

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Although Socrates, Jesus, and Galileo later became great minds and spirits to millions of people, back when they lived they were widely misunderstood. In each of their experiences they ... "wrong" path. To the Roman Empire he was a threat to traditional law and society, leading the Romans to condemn Jesus under the law as a hazardous messianic pretender. Galileo too, was misunderstood. He was an astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. He lived until 1642. Up until his time humans believed that the earth was the center of the ... universe, which was specified by the Catholic Church. Galileo...

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... (Jupiter 1). Jupiter is the King of the Gods, the ruler of Olympus and the patron of the Roman state. In 1610, Galileo discovered Jupiter, and Pioneer 10 first visited it in 1973 and currently, the spacecraft Galileo is orbiting around Jupiter. Galileo will be sending back information for the next two years (Jupiter 2).. Jupiter is about as big as a gas planet can get ... planet from the sun and the second largest. Rings (or bands) are the classic distinction, which observers give to Saturn. "In roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture" (Saturn 1). Galileo first discovered Satu...

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... what one may want. But eventually a line must be drawn as to what price is worth paying in order to achieve that goal. In The life of Galileo and Brave New World, the goal is a stable society. The essential idea around these sacrifices is that no price is worth paying if it undermines the society ... unstable, it may be non-existent. Many believe that religion is one of the only ways in which a society can be truly stable. In The Life of Galileo, the church controls the society. The church teaches people about God, that the earth is the center of the universe, and that life is centered on...

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... or legends, science is the way to go. Ever since the Papal Decision which was entered into the record of the Holy Office in 1633 against Galileo Galilei , religion and science have been at odds. Galileo wrote "The sun is the center of the universe and immovable, and that the earth is not the center of the same and that it moves ... scams and adultery. At the website terrorismfiles.org, 90% of the terrorist groups listed are religious based organizations. "The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in ch...

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... named the planet after the Roman god, Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology) and the astronomical symbol (see Figure 1) is a representation of the lightning bolt carried by Zeus (Crystal). In 1610, Galileo Galilei made the first detailed observations of Jupiter (Harvey). He discovered Jupiter's four large moons (see Figure 2) Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (aka the Galilean moons) and documented their motions ... discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. It was first observed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe and thoroughly investigated in the 1990's by the Gal...

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... was somewhat dismissed but gave inspiration to Johannes Kepler who discovered planetary motion. He said that the planets moved in an elliptical shape rather than a circular motion. But it was Galileo who saw with the newly invented telescope that the sun and the moon had imperfections in them disproving that they were round and flawless. The church not to keen on ... this theory confined Galileo to his house for heresy. He knew that the world was turning but did not understand why we did not fly off of it. Though he did not answer this ... ...

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... the most interesting in our Solar System. It is believed to be the god of agriculture in Roman mythology and its Greek name is Cronos. Saturn was first discovered by Galileo in 1610 by using one of the first telescopes. He was confused by its appearance as it looked like it had three parts, which the two extra parts, like three ... from the Sun. At the center of Saturn, the core is thought to have a temperature close to 15,000 C. The dramatic appearance of Saturn stems mainly from the spectacular rings. Galileo first discovery of the ring system in 1610 was described incorrectly because...

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... patron of the Roman State (1)." Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky and has been known since prehistoric times. More recently since the invention of the telescope by Galileo, have humans been able to study Jupiter with better vision. In 1664 one such observer noticed a mysterious occurrence on the planet, the Great Red Spot. "Although having been seen from ... 2. http://www.cpither.freeserve.co.uk 3. http://agham.asti.dost.gov.ph/1998/2nd/extras/joanne1.htm 4. http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/29/table.html 5. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/atjup/atmos/grs.html ...

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... ". During the 16th and 17th centuries in the Catholic Church, bringing any type of knowledge about science to the church was against the law. Two scientists, Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, both held the same theory that the Earth was revolving around the sun, but were punished because the church took the bible to literal that the Earth is at ... ...

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... rings and its mythology. In Roman mythology Saturn is the God of agriculture. Saturn also is the root of the English word Saturday. Saturn has been known since prehistoric times. Galileo was the first to observe it with a telescope in 1610. He noted its odd appearance but was confused by it. Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system, and ... ...

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... comes to my mind but not to those who believe. It was not until the late fourteenth century when of the experiments and studies of pioneer astronomers, like Copernicus and Galileo, gave uncertainty about the shape of the Earth. Now many people believe that the Earth is spherical. There are other beliefs that are rather outrageous as well. The notoriously known ... ...

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... blacks. The majority would be all and all would be the same. There would be no He or no they. There would be no George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, no Galileo or Newton. We would have been stuck in the lives of cave men long ago, bereft of the wheel, the fire, or the spear. There would have been no change ... ...

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... is roughly proportional to the distance from the Sun. . 3) the period squared is proportional to the length of the orbit with each planet obeying the same proportionality constant. 1564-1642 Galileo constructed the first telescopes and gathered evidence for the Copernican theory and Kepler's third law all of these discoveries conflicted with the Ptolemaic belief. 1642-1727 Issac Newton he was ... ...

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... Sun" area, this is where the most sunspots, solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections are observed. Sunspots A sunspot is a relatively cool area on the Sun. First studied in detail by Galileo this was the first evident to prove that the Sun wasn't a perfect creation but was something that was ever changing. They are darker and cooler in relation to their surrounding ... ...

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