Galileo S Mistake

Author : Wade Rowland
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628722420

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The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo is that of Science and Reason persecuted by Ignorance and Superstition—of Galileo as a lonely, courageous freethinker oppressed by a reactionary and anti-intellectual institution fearful of losing its power and influence. But is this an accurate picture? In his provocative reexamination of one of the turning points in the history of science and thought, Wade Rowland contends that the dispute concerned an infinitely more profound question: What is truth and how can we know it? Rowland demonstrates that Galileo’s mistake was to insist that science—and only science—provides the truth about reality. The Church rejected this idea, declaring that while science is valid, truth is a metaphysical issue—beyond physics—and it involves such matters as meaning and purpose, which are unquantifiable and therefore not amenable to scientific analysis. In asserting the primacy of science on the territory of truth, Galileo strayed into the theological realm, an act that put him squarely on a warpath with the Church. The outcome would change the world. Wade Rowland’s thoughtful exploration promises to disarm the most stubborn of skeptics and make for scintillating debate.

Author : Wade Rowland
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 1559706848

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Galileo's Mistake by Wade Rowland Pdf

In asserting the primacy of science on the territory of truth, Galileo strayed from purely scientific inquiry into the theological realm, an act that put him squarely on the warpath with the Church. The outcome would change the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Wade Rowland
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611451566

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Galileo's Mistake by Wade Rowland Pdf

In a revisionist look at the seventeenth-century battle between ecclesiastical authorities and Galileo Galilei, Rowland provocatively challenges the prevailing view of the episode. The central issue for the inquisitors investigating Galileo's orthodoxy, insists Rowland, was never the sun-centered astronomy of Copernicus. No, much broader philosophical issues were at stake. And on these issues, Rowland argues, the church stood closer to the truth than did Galileo. The astronomer erred--in Rowland's judgment--not in his advocacy of Copernican theory but rather in his endorsement of a thoroughgoing mathematical empiricism. And while everyone now agrees with Galileo in accepting Copernicus, the doctrinaire empiricism Galileo deployed to advance Copernicanism looks as shallow and misleading to today's quantum physicists as it once did to the Renaissance theologians who forced Galileo to recant.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07T22:59:00Z
Category : Science
ISBN : 9798350031881

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Summary of Wade Rowland's Galileo's Mistake by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The myth of Galileo is that he was condemned by the Catholic Church for having discovered the truth. But this was not the case. #2 The myth of Galileo is that he was condemned by the Catholic Church for having discovered the truth. But this was not the case. #3 The Church of Rome’s epic confrontation with Galileo was a supremely significant event that reflects the issues that define the most portentous turning point of the second millennium, the transition from the Age of Faith to the Age of Reason. #4 The Church’s conflict with Galileo was not about Copernicanism, but rather about his belief in the reality of mathematical objects. The Church denied this, on the grounds that it excluded the possibility that there was an ultimate goal and purpose to existence.

Author : Wade Rowland
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025254454

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Galileo's Mistake by Wade Rowland Pdf

Veteran literary journalist Wade Rowland takes one of the modern world’s most influential myths – the epic confrontation of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) with the Church of Rome – and turns it on its head. Rowland argues that at the dawning of the Scientific Revolution in the early 1600s, Galileo’s mistake was to insist that science provides truth about nature. The Church fought back against this challenge to its authority by declaring that science provides only models for reality and that the ultimate truth is accessible only through metaphysical or spiritual insight. Although the 1633 trial centred on Galileo’s telescopic observations of the night sky, Rowland argues persuasively that this was merely the public face put on a much more profound issue: what is truth and how can we know it? Galileo’s ultimate recantation, Rowland argues, must be understood in this light. Couched in the engaging style of travel narrative, this provocative reexamination deconstructs the myth that Galileo was a freethinker waging war against reactionary and anti-intellectual Church. Using the Socratic method of examining arguments, Galileo’s Mistake moves seamlessly through Galileo’s life and his ideas about the nature of reality. By no means an apologist for the Church, Rowland skillfully and persuasively identifies the source of the ontological crisis that plagues us today: the unquestioned authority of science in determining the nature of reality.

Author : Philip Goff
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524747961

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Galileo's Error by Philip Goff Pdf

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness--panpsychism, an exciting alternative that could pave the way forward.ward.

Author : Galileo
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780375757662

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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Pdf

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.

Author : Hans C. Ohanian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393337686

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Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius by Hans C. Ohanian Pdf

“A thought-provoking critique of Einstein’s tantalizing combination of brilliance and blunder.”—Andrew Robinson, New Scientist Never before translated into English, the Manimekhalai is one of the great classics of Indian culture.

Author : Raffaele Pisano,Joseph Agassi,Daria Drozdova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319617121

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Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science by Raffaele Pisano,Joseph Agassi,Daria Drozdova Pdf

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his passing (in 2014), this special book features studies on Alexandre Koyré (1892–1964), one of the most influential historians of science of the 20th century, who re-evaluated prevalent thinking on the history and philosophy of science. In particular, it explores Koyré’s intellectual matrix and heritage within interdisciplinary fields of historical, epistemological and philosophical scientific thought. Koyré is rightly noted as both a versatile historian on the birth and development of modern science and for his interest in philosophical questions on the nature of scientific knowledge. In the 1940s and 1950s his activities in the United States established a crucial bridge between the European historical tradition of science studies and the American academic environments, and an entire generation of historians of science grew up under his direct influence. The book brings together contributions from leading experts in the field, and offers much-needed insights into the subject from historical, nature of science, and philosophical perspectives. It provides an absorbing and revealing read for historians, philosophers and scientists alike.

Author : Mark Austin Peterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674062979

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Galileo's Muse by Mark Austin Peterson Pdf

Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that became modern science. Galileo's Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a scientific revolution that eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day, steeped as they were in a medieval cosmos and its underlying philosophy. According to Peterson, the recovery of classical science owes much to the Renaissance artists who first turned to Greek sources for inspiration and instruction. Chapters devoted to their insights into mathematics, ranging from perspective in painting to tuning in music, are interspersed with chapters about Galileo's own life and work. Himself an artist turned scientist and an avid student of Hellenistic culture, Galileo pulled together the many threads of his artistic and classical education in designing unprecedented experiments to unlock the secrets of nature. In the last chapter, Peterson draws our attention to the Oratio de Mathematicae laudibus of 1627, delivered by one of Galileo's students. This document, Peterson argues, was penned in part by Galileo himself, as an expression of his understanding of the universality of mathematics in art and nature. It is "entirely Galilean in so many details that even if it is derivative, it must represent his thought," Peterson writes. An intellectual adventure, Galileo’s Muse offers surprising ideas that will capture the imagination of anyone—scientist, mathematician, history buff, lover of literature, or artist—who cares about the humanistic roots of modern science.

Author : Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048132010

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Defending Copernicus and Galileo by Maurice A. Finocchiaro Pdf

Although recent works on Galileo’s trial have reached new heights of erudition, documentation, and sophistication, they often exhibit inflated complexities, neglect 400 years of historiography, or make little effort to learn from Galileo. This book strives to avoid such lacunae by judiciously comparing and contrasting the two Galileo affairs, that is, the original controversy over the earth’s motion ending with his condemnation by the Inquisition in 1633, and the subsequent controversy over the rightness of that condemnation continuing to our day. The book argues that the Copernican Revolution required that the hypothesis of the earth’s motion be not only constructively supported with new reasons and evidence, but also critically defended from numerous old and new objections. This defense in turn required not only the destructive refutation, but also the appreciative understanding of those objections in all their strength. A major Galilean accomplishment was to elaborate such a reasoned, critical, and fair-minded defense of Copernicanism. Galileo’s trial can be interpreted as a series of ecclesiastic attempts to stop him from so defending Copernicus. And an essential thread of the subsequent controversy has been the emergence of many arguments claiming that his condemnation was right, as well as defenses of Galileo from such criticisms. The book’s particular yet overarching thesis is that today the proper defense of Galileo can and should have the reasoned, critical, and fair-minded character which his own defense of Copernicus had.

Author : P. S. J. (Peet) Schutte
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781477227572

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How to Swindle by Faking Science by P. S. J. (Peet) Schutte Pdf

How To Swindle by Faking Science then you are going read what is the mother of all the conspiracies in science, which is about how science applies mind control by processing thought control. This is the truth! Science practicing physics about Astronomy, Cosmology and everything to do with Stars, the Cosmos or Universe, Galactica is under a Conspiracy to hide and conceal the truth...Does this sound far-fetched - I challenge you to read this book and then still think it is far fetched. Read what science hides and I prove every word. This book reveals what Science in Physics concerning Astronomy, Cosmology hides for hundreds of years. You read how science swindles to make Newton seem truthful and every time they find out how nature works nature destroys Newtonian concepts completely. This is the a conspiracy... For the first time in history I prove gravity is P. But if science was as unblemished and perfect as physicists say it is then my work has no place to be. This then is the attitude in science about my work. To counter that claim I prove that there is a mother conspiracy in place about covering the misconceptions hidden under a cloak of false lily-white purity and truthfulness. To hide Newton's in defendable incorrectness science created a mother conspiracy, which I reveal. There is a mother conspiracy hiding mistakes in place. Science benefits from and build upon this mother conspiracy being in place while I can't get further with my work while it is in place. It's imbedded in the teaching and learning process students undergo in learning Newtonian dogma. Students are brainwashed by the instigation of mind control that forces students to accept the dogma.I prove gravity has value of P, still by keeping me quiet I am perverted to introduce a new cosmic vision showing how the Universe forms when enlisting the four phenomena. How it works in science is Newton gets undeserved unduly credit in discrediting nature. I show how singularity takes on every shape and space we know. Are you up to facing the truth about what you thought is more righteous than God? Read this and see what those in science hide to make them seem so surreal?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Peet Schutte
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781920430030

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Science Conspiracy Website 4 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karl von Gebler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Inquisition
ISBN : OXFORD:600050183

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Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia by Karl von Gebler Pdf

Author : Karl von Gebler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600081179

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Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia, tr. by mrs G. Sturge by Karl von Gebler Pdf