Galilio(1564-1642)
Four critical questions
What is scientist?
What is science?
What is good and bad science?
What makes "science" different from- other ways of understandingthe world-philosophy,theology..ect?And who cares?
Personal inf about Galilio
Italian great thinker born in florance and become an important thinker,scholarand writer
His writings got him into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church.
What makes Galilio great?
Galilo changed the world and the way people understand and look at the universe
He became history's most famous"Martyer of science after his condemnation by the church
galili's scientific approach
observe
hypothesize
devise a way to test the hypothesis
test the hypothesis
publish the results
What makes Galilio great scientist?
In 1609 he transfered the telescope from atoy into a powerful instrument of discovering the universe by pointing it at the night sky
He tested and verified a set of mathmatical formulae establishing formal relationship between the motion of an object,time and distance
Those form the basis of modern science of physics
what made the chursh condemned galilio
He made enemies of key figureinside and outside the chursh
He seemed to challenge the natural philosophy of the day and the teachings of the church as it absorbed it 2000 years
He didn't find a convincing response to the resons why the heliocentric theory had been rejected
He failed to offer a proof that the old ptolemic system contradicted to the observable evidance or the copernican system was better explanation