Science
1564 to 1642, Pisa
The telescope, the heavens, and the birth of observation.
Start learning Galileo →How a homemade telescope shattered two thousand years of belief in a perfect, unchanging heaven - and why the evidence still had to fight to be believed.
How Galileo overturned Aristotle’s physics with a ramp, a water-clock, and one devastating thought experiment - and made motion a thing you could write as an equation.
Why we cannot feel the Earth hurtling through space, and how Galileo’s answer planted the seed of inertia and of relativity itself.
Galileo’s claim that the universe is written in mathematics - and the bargain that claim struck with the world of colour, taste and feeling.
The collision between Galileo’s Copernicanism and the Church - and what the trial really teaches about evidence, authority, and who may decide the truth.
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