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Sixteen yers later Galileo wrote his famous ‘Dialogue on the two great world systems’
Title: Sixteen yers later Galileo wrote his famous ‘Dialogue on the two great world systems’
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Sixteen yers later Galileo wrote his famous ‘Dialogue on the two great world systems’
Does the trial of Galileo indicate that the church was hostile to new ideas in science?
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) proved to be the first dramatic example of conflict between science
and religion. Galileo introduced and correctly explained the idea- what is the acceleration of a
free falling object, by doing this he quashed the previous theories of his predecessor, Aristotle.
Aristotle came up with the theory that the weight of an object and the medium through …showed first 75 words of 1933 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1933 total…of his life under house arrest.
It is unfair to say that the church has been hostile to new ideas in science. There have
been a number of areas where religion has promoted science, for example , Kepler’s discovery
that the planets orbit the sun in ellipsis. Also Newton’s idea that the pull of gravity holds planets
around the sun, the Catholic Church have paved the way for people like Galileo and Newton.
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