Sharp and cutting mind
Sharp and cutting mind
Robert Matthews
August 29. 2009
Today it would hardly pass muster as a child’s toy: a wooden telescope whose crude lenses struggle to give an 8x magnification. But exactly 400 years ago this month, it created a sensation, sparked a scientific revolution and turned its maker into a hero.
The story of how Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to the night sky and incurred the wrath of the authorities is well known. For centuries he has been seen as the quintessential champion of rational science over outdated dogma. Yet the real story of Galileo’s struggles with authority is altogether less Apollonian. At its core is the all too familiar issue of what people will do to keep their jobs.
For his academic contemporaries, Galileo’s principal crime was not heresy but something far more mundane. He debunked the age-old assertions of Aristotle – and thus threatened the livelihoods of those who taught the ancient Greek philosopher’s works as unimpeachable fact. Galileo became the target of a plot which compelled the Vatican to take action and silence their irksome opponent.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2009083...
DaVinci was also threatened.
If there's a moral to the story it is that those in power do not much care for new discoveries if it puts their power in jeopardy.
This is true of scientists, religious leaders, and so forth. A gifted few, such as Nostradamus, Swedenborg and even Rasputin, got to rub shoulders with the nobility. But most did not. It's still like that today, to some extent.
From the macro, to the micro, to the nano
Thought you might find this interesting too.
IBM images a molecule
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1209726/Singl...
"I don't endorse anything they say"
~Ron Paul On the 911 Truth movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyhlNY0y1k
Now think how all those physicists
feel that zero-point energy has been found. Kinda breaks that 2nd law of thermodynamics.
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Father of modern science, Galileo challenged the church 400 year
Father of modern science, Galileo challenged the church 400 years ago
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – When Galileo Galilei first turned his simple telescope toward Jupiter, the moon and then the sun nearly 400 years ago, it’s not difficult to imagine how amazed he was.
Known as the father of modern science, Galileo meticulously recorded the motions of the four largest satellites of Jupiter and drew images of Earth’s moon that showed it to be much more geographically complex than the smooth sphere others imagined. The sun, he concluded, actually revolved; the motion of sunspots proved it.
Galileo’s discoveries in 1609 and 1610 – the result of making improvements to a device invented by Johannes Lipperhey, a German spectacles maker working in the Netherlands - led to an explosive growth in astronomy.
http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.asp...
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