12/27/2023 0 Comments Galileo galilei and yet it moves![]() The more I delve into the consideration of the vanity of popular discourses, the more empty and simple I find them. I say the same concerning the Moon, Jupiter, and all the other globes of the Universe. The difference for me would be the same as between a living and a dead creature. And if, without being subject to any alteration, it had been one great heap of sand, or a mass of jade, or if, since the time of the deluge, the waters freezing which covered it, it had continued an immense globe of crystal, wherein nothing had ever grown, altered, or changed, I should have esteemed it a wretched lump of no benefit to the Universe, a mass of idleness, and in a word superfluous, exactly as if it had never been in Nature. It is my opinion that the earth is very noble and admirable by reason of the many and different alterations, mutations, and generations which incessantly occur in it. Sagredo Variant translation: I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they are impassable, immutable, inalterable, etc.: as conversely, I hear it esteemed a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, and mutable. No longer being able to deny them, these men now take refuge in obstinate silence, but being more than ever exasperated by that which has pacified and quieted other men, they divert their thoughts to other fancies and seek new ways to damage me.were others who denied them or remained in doubt only because of their novel and unexpected character, and because they had not yet had the opportunity to see for themselves. Men who were well grounded in astronomical and physical science were persuaded as soon as they received my first message. Kontext: The passage of time has revealed to everyone the truths that I previously set forth and, together with the truth of the facts, there has come to light the great difference in attitude between those who simply and dispassionately refused to admit the discoveries to be true, and those who combined with their incredulity some reckless passion of their own. Yet there are those who will barely read one book and think they have all the answers.Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) Your efforts and the beliefs of the people will never succeed in reducing the truth of the fact.Ī scientific thinking person will read dozens if not hundreds of books in their lifetime, but still believe that they have so much more to learn. The basic concept is this: You can deny a fact all day long with the most convincing arguments and have 99% of the people believing you. The statement is referring to the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun and is not the center of the universe, regardless of what the Church said. The myth is that Galileo said this after giving his formal recanting of heliocentrism before the church. However, this is one of those myths that can be accepted as a myth and still carry on as having profound meaning. It’s most likely a myth created by Guiseppe Baretti, since it first appeared in his book “Biblioteca Italiana”, which was published over 100 years after Galileo’s death. Most scholars agree that Galileo never said this. ![]() Galileo Galilei at the Inquisition in 1633 (Photo: )
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