Nobody Remembers Galileo
Nobody Remembers
Galileo, Galilei: Today was his birthday: He was born February the 15th, 1564, and not a word was mentioned about the guy.
According to Wikipedia:
Galileo has been called the “father of modern “observational astronomy” , the father of “modern physics” the “father of science”, and “the Father of Modern Science”. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons honor), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments. According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called him the father of modern science.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
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Not that the Earth does in fact revolve around the Sun. It does nothing of the sort unless one accepts the ‘flat solar system’ view, which is only a degree from the flat earth view. Galileo was quite wrong. All those solar system charts in our classrooms and even the clockwork gizmos that purport to show the ‘revolutions’ of the Planets are all quite simple tales for simple minds. Again, just a degree of difference from thinking we are at the centre of all things and everything else revolves around us.
The Sun whizzes its way through space, carried along with all the neighbouring stars out here on the galactic arm. The planets in our system do not ‘revolve’ around it but are corkscrewing along in a very intricate three dimensional pattern. God alone knows what Richard Dawkins (had he been around in Galileo’s day) would have demanded. Probably a lot more than a simple recanting.
But yes, Galileo did give us the optical telescope. And we are stunned into simpletondom by what has been reveal of the Heavens above. Watch that Space. We ain’t seen nothing yet.
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Gee…so winter is caused by…the orion nebula? Good to know!
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