Galileo's Letter To The Grand Duchess-Part IIA

It is sometimes more imperative to follow a backwards motion when reading certain blogs so they are not out of context.

(This was an assignment for History: 1500-Present Day that was a presentation to the class 7/9/2010 on the Scientific Revolution)

In the words of Galileo himself, "the novelty of these things, as well as some consequesnces which followed from them in contradiction to the physical notions commonly held among acedemic philosophers, stirred up against me no small number of professors- as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands in order to upset nature and overturn the sciences. They seem to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction."

*Galileo challenges his contractors to prove to themselves his conclusions
*Seeing truth puts Bible in better light
*Challenges them to prove St. Augustine’s theory against prejudice
*Exerts them to put reason over passion

Some scientists needed to see to believe, but then came to his conclusions. Galileo produces what he calls counter-arguments which pits the field of philosophy and religion against science, bringing up that simplicity of their reason gives way under a complex system (i.e. like John Calvin, who concluded being saved by grace over every word that proceeded from the mouth of God, & Catholicism, which concocted the Doctrine of the Trinity, three in one, in the Nicene Creed in 325 A.D., central themes which can be attributed to modern religions and why they believe what they do on tradition rather than merit).

*We defile ourselves by not accepting intrinsic truth and curtail future discoveries
*Advocated leaving examinations of science to scientist-let matters of faith be separate; knowledge is the assertion of truth over belief.
*As a matter of challenge, no other claim has disputed Galileo’s facts.

If balance is the key, then each form of study will unite all truths. It is the difference in how we see from our POV, whether it is finite or infinite. (Science, psychology, philosophy, religion, politics, nutrition, and exercise --Balance of Human Medians).