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In his letter to Benedetto Castelli, Galileo argues that using the Bible as evidence against the Copernican system involves three key errors. Firstly, claiming that the Bible shows the Earth to be static and concluding that the Earth therefore does not move is arguing from a false premise; whether the Earth moves or not is a thing which must be demonstrated (or not) through scientific enquiry.
Castelli was involved in the discovery of the phases of Venus: In December 1610, Galileo received a letter from Castelli, asking if the phases of Venus were observable through Galileo's new telescope. [1] Days later, Galileo wrote in a letter to Johannes Kepler saying that he'd observed Venus going through phases, but took complete credit for ...
Galileo replied to Castelli with a long letter laying out his position on the relation between science and Scripture. By 1615, with the controversy over the Earth's motion becoming more widespread and increasingly dangerous, Galileo revised this letter and greatly expanded it; this became the Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina .
Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642) Johannes Keplerº (1571–1630) Benedetto Castelli (1578–1643) René Descartes ... Richard H. Price (born 1943) Pierre Ramond
The Assayer (Italian: Il saggiatore) is a book by Galileo Galilei, published in Rome in October 1623. It is generally considered to be one of the pioneering works of the scientific method, first broaching the idea that the book of nature is to be read with mathematical tools rather than those of scholastic philosophy, as generally held at the time.
50 inch fixed screen projector with two projector lenses with three tubes. 60 fL on screen brightness. KP-7200 [36] Sony: 1978: No : 480i : 50 [37] Analogue:
The private equity owner of one of Europe's largest private education groups, Galileo Global Education, has put the business up for the sale in a deal worth about 2.5 billion euros ($2.72 billion ...
The Mark I projector installed in the Deutsches Museum in 1923 was the world's first planetarium projector. The Mark III modified projector installed in the Planetario Humboldt 1950 in Caracas - Venezuela.It is the oldest in Latin America. Marks II through VI utilized two small spheres of lenses separated along a central axis.