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In his letter to Benedetto Castelli, Galileo argues that using the Bible as evidence against the Copernican system involves three key errors. Firstly, claiming that the Bible shows the Earth to be static and concluding that the Earth therefore does not move is arguing from a false premise; whether the Earth moves or not is a thing which must be demonstrated (or not) through scientific enquiry.
Galileo establishes two main premises before addressing his conclusion. God has created Scripture and nature. They cannot contradict each other. Nature is independent of accommodation, but Scripture is produced to accommodate. [2] Galileo argued that the Copernican theory was not just a mathematical calculating tool, but a physical reality.
As a result, the formal title on the title page is Dialogue, which is followed by Galileo's name, academic posts, and followed by a long subtitle. The name by which the work is now known was extracted by the printer from the description on the title page when permission was given to reprint it with an approved preface by a Catholic theologian ...
The Galileo affair (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei) began around 1610, [1] and culminated with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633. Galileo was prosecuted for holding as true the doctrine of heliocentrism , the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at ...
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence) on 15 February 1564, [16] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a leading lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, the daughter of a prominent merchant, who had married two years earlier in 1562, when he was 42, and she was 24.
Marius attacked Galileo in Mundus Jovialis (published in 1614) by insisting that he had found Jupiter's four moons before Galileo and had been observing them since 1609. Marius believed that he therefore had the right to name them, which he did: he named them after Jupiter's love conquests: Io , Europa , Ganymede , and Callisto .
However, in the Discourse on Comets Galileo defended a view that posed no challenge to the main tenets of Aristotelian cosmology, while Grassi had in fact departed from the strictly Aristotelian view and embraced Tycho Brahe. Galileo adopted this line of argument to highlight the weaknesses of Tycho's system as a replacement for Ptolemy. [17]: 19
The French churchman Jean Tarde visited Rome in 1615, and he also met Galileo in Florence and discussed sunspots with him, as well as Galileo's other work. He did not agree with Galileo's view that the sunspots were on or near the surface of the Sun, and held rather that they were small planets.