Galileo Galilei: a profession of faith democratic

"I Grandissima par l'inezia of those who would like that God had made the universe more proportionate to the small capacity of lor speech."

And 'This is a quote of works by Galileo Galilei: physicist, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. Nacqua in Pisa in 1564, he was always fond of mathematics, but his father pushed him to study medicine, so in 1581 his father enrolled him at the University of Pisa, but his attraction for math was irresistible, so that already began in 1583 to study achieving their degree only 4 years later.

He began to give private lessons, and made off in academia, spreading his writings until, by invitation of the Florentine not approached literary topics as discussions of sull'Inferno Dante Alighieri and evaluations on the work of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso.

He was attracted by the solar system and constellations, beginning to develop and verify some theories based on the principles of Copernicus, surrounding everything in the "Dialogue above the highest systems", in which the Ptolemaic and Copernican theories are made comparison; later agrees with the Vatican some changes in order to print the work, but then decided to have it printed in Florence in 1632.
Pope Urban VIII, considered the "Dialogue", it prohibits the distribution and dall'Inquisizione ago set up a trial against Galileo.

The theories of Galileo Galilei, have important implications philosophical: it is defined a new relationship between philosophy and science, and between philosophy and religion. In the past, in fact, the philosopher Giordano Bruno, was condemned to the stake for his theories, but, Galileo Galielo, who pronounces his theories as a scientist, was only sentenced to abiurare, namely to retract what he said.

Then, from a scientific theories were confirmed (but then be tried by Newton), from the religious point of view however, the Church is "satisfied" the renunciation of Galileo to its own thesis. But despite what the Church considered responsible for having "kept and believed false doctrine and contrary to divine and sacred scriptures, ch'il Sole […] does not move from east to west, and that the Earth moves and is not the center of world ", so his written" Dialogue above the highest systems "was to put (it was prevented the publication and contents were defined not true), and was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment that tramutarono then, the view ' age, arrests domiciliairi at his home in Arcetri, where he died in 1642.

The convictions of the Church, and the compulsion to abiuare however, not scalfirono the convictions of Galileo Galilei, which is then handed signing the act of abjuration exclaimed: "moves yet," referring to the land.

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