Galileo Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564. ... When the Church heard of Galileo's work, he was summoned to be trialed before the Inquisition. ... Because Galileo knew that he would be trialed for publishing his findings, he included some arguments in the work to allow him to argue that the book was published to demonstrate the weaknesses of Copernicus's theory. ... Galileo, like Michelangelo and Leonardo, had a strong spirit of inquiry, and dared to challenge traditional thought. ... To a lesser extent, the revival of knowledge from Greece and Rome is evident in Galileo, wh...

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Renaissance Paper The period of the renaissance existed between the years of 1485 and 1660. The term renaissance itself is a French word meaning "rebirth" and it refers particularly to renew interest in classical learning, the writing of ancient Greece and Rome. In the Middle Ages, people forgot ...

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Renaissance, which means "rebirth" was the cultural movement in Europe from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century. During the Renaissance, astronomy was founded by a famous astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus. In the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Nicolaus Copernicus is introduced as follo...

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As Galileo physically proved that the Sun rests in the center through the utilization of a telescope, the church began to feel compelled to allow the theory to stand as a hypothesis rather than a fact. ...

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