![]() Click here to read the rest of the article. This article was written by Patrick Rhodes and published on January 12, 2016. 11, 2016, after a long struggle and costing over half a billion dollars, our perception of reality was fundamentally altered when gravitational waves were announced to have finally been directly observed. Likewise, gravitational waves were also predicted by mathematics, but in the early 20th century, nobody knew how to measure them. In effect, Copernicus and Galileo demonstrated a common approach to the accumulation of scientific knowledge, that is, through mathematical prediction and observation - and the obstacles that must be overcome to bring this knowledge to light. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced / lle.o lle.i / ( GAL-ih-LAY-oh GAL-ih-LAY-ee, Italian: alilo alili ). They are not mentioned in judiciary files from the trial. ![]() Although he was later confined to his house by order of the church for challenging the Bible's teaching in Chronicles 16:30, which states "the world is firmly established it cannot be moved", he remained resolute, stating "and yet it moves". Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. According to available evidence, Galileo Galilei never said these notoriously famous words. ![]() Galileo, using a new invention called a telescope, was able to confirm these mathematical computations through observation, albeit indirectly. Nearly 70 years prior to this "Galileo affair" as it has come to be known, Copernicus had published the first mathematical, geometric system to place the sun at the center of the solar system in his widely circulated book entitled On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543). Despite religious pressure to acquiesce, he refused. We can probably attribute incredible popularity of the quote to widespread animosity against the Catholic Church, prevalent in 18.th century, bound with efforts to create martyr-like figures from the Church’s past adversaries and victims.Galileo Galilei knew the Earth revolved around the Sun and that it wasn't, as the Catholic Church would have him believe, some unmoving object around which everything else revolved. ![]() If he was sane, Galileo wouldn’t even consider uttering “And yet it moves” right in front of the inquisition. If the Galileo really said these words, we can readily take for granted that it would ruin all his efforts to be proven innocent, and probably denounce him to life in prison. Galileo Galilei facing the Roman Inquisition(Cristiano Banti, 1857) “The moment Galileo was set free, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, while stamping his foot, in a contemplative mood, he said, Eppur si muove, that is, and yet it moves, meaning the planet earth.“ However, there is a very high probability that he either imagined this event himself, or took it from other dubious sources. They are not mentioned in judiciary files from the trial, neither in Galileo’s own letters and other writings.įirst recorded mention of this famous quote being said by Galileo comes from more than 120 years later, from notoriously inaccurate work “ The Italian Librar y”, written by Giuseppe Baretti. According to available evidence, Galileo Galilei never said these notoriously famous words.
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