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Galileo's telescope showed moons revolving around Jupiter and Venus moving in ways that challenged the assumption that everything revolves around Earth.
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Galileo
The Scientific Revolution's main idea is the institutionalization of doubt: asking questions, debating, and experimenting are divine because heaven itself models debate.
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Jiang argues that Galileo's real danger was not disagreement with Church science but claiming authority to interpret Scripture above the Church.
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Jiang says Galileo's fall can be read as hubris and personality, but history remembers it as science versus Church because Protestants used the trial as anti-Catholic propaganda.
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Galileo becomes remembered as the father of modern science because Protestants turn his trial into propaganda about science above religion, even though Jiang says the math for heliocentrism was still weak at the time.
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Jiang says revolutionary scientific genius is not polite reform but a conflict that requires defying the basic premises of bureaucratic science.
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The Scientific Revolution's main idea is the institutionalization of doubt: asking questions, debating, and experimenting are divine because heaven itself models debate.
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"...to Newton, but Kepler made all these revolutionary discoveries. Now comes Galileo. And Galileo, he lives in Florence at this time, and so he's..."
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"...it's not that great. But with this telescope... This new invention, Galileo did amazing things. First thing he did was he discovered that Jupiter..."
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"...off the heliocentric model, okay? So they're having these arguments, and Galileo's arguments were very limited. Remember, this is a new idea. It's not..."
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"...and the stars. So logically, everything should revolve around Earth. So Galileo, how do you explain this conflict between your theory of the heliocentric..."
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"...And they basically put him under arrest, okay? At this point, Galileo's friends pleaded with the pope, and the pope said, fine, I'm a..."
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"...will say, you see how anti -science the church is. And Galileo will be... Will be remembered now as the father of modern science..."
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"decision between alternative ways of practicing science is called for and the circumstances that this decision must be based less on past achievement than..."
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"is sent by God to tell us the truth okay that's Galileo Galileo if you actually met the person you would think this guy's..."
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"...experiment. All right? Remember, the father of the Second Revolution is Galileo."
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"Where's Galileo from? Florence. Right? So, Galileo grew up immersed in the divine comedy. All right? These things aren't accidental. Okay? Right? All right...."
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"...the Catholic Church very, very soon, mainly in the trial of Galileo. Okay. So. Because science asks this question. How do we know truth?..."
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"...were guilty of heresy, you could be burned at the stake, Galileo had no choice but to follow this order, okay? That is until..."
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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