In time Galileo's findings began to trouble a powerful authority—the Catholic Church. The Aristotelian worldview had been integrated with Catholic teachings, so any challenges to Aristotle had ...

During his speech, the pope -- then Cardinal Ratzinger -- quoted an Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend, saying, "At the time of Galileo, the church remained more loyal (or faithful) to reason ...

THE numerous works which have appeared with Galileo for their theme may be divided into three classes. Firstly, those which relate mori particularly to his persecution by the Church, the position ...

The Church believed Earth was the centre of the universe, but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the ...

Bains Elementary School fifth graders role-played a trial between Galileo and the church to their class at Bains Elementary. Camille Burns and Sarah Fudge’s class was split, and each side came ...

If you can dust off your grade-school summary of Galileo’s life — improving the telescope, discovering four of Jupiter’s moons, pitting science’s heliocentrism against Catholic doctrine ...