Throughout history, people have debated whether or not the Renaissance was a period of revolutionary change. ... Copernicus discovered that the sun was the center of the cosmos, not earth and that earth rotated on its axis every 24 hours. ... Galileo Galilei discovered that the sun was the center of the universe and immovable. ...
Throughout history, people have always been aware of ever-present truths concerning the world in which they lived. ... And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, while the nation took vengeance on its foe The sun halted in the middle of the sky; not for a whole day did it resume its swift course... "* The way that the Church saw it, this Bible verse clearly affirmiated the sun's motion around the earth, in addition to making Galileo a bonified heretic. ... However, it is also important to understand that no matter how convincing Galileo's argument for a sun-centered unive...
Decades earlier, Copernicus's scientific argument that the earth revolved around the sun was scoffed at by the church, but Galileo was able to verify that Copernicus had been correct all along and used his superior telescope to prove it. ... Early in his life, Galileo's physical science theories conflicted with some of the greatest minds in history, including Aristotle. ...
As Drake explains " the silencing and punishment of Galileo toward the end of a life devoted to scientific inquiry was an event of profound significance for our cultural history" (pg. iii). ... I bring up the fact that Bruno a contemporary of Galileo was sentenced to death for supporting Copernican Sun centred system as proof of his courage. ...
