Word: galileo
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...believers, suggesting atheists behave "as if God existed." Benedict even praised Karl Marx in his last encyclical for his "incisive language and intellect ... precision and great analytic skill," before dissecting the errors of his ideology. Next year, the Vatican has slated special conferences to confront the ideas of Galileo and Darwin...
...wants to laugh at what is happening and to make trouble for poor Julia. But another part whispers: Wait. Why blow the whistle as the West declines into mumbo jumbo? Let them take our dozen-armed deities and magic incense sticks; we'll transfer their busts of Galileo and Descartes to our engineering colleges and outsourcing companies. One day soon, their mystical children will wear turbans and serve our rational children at restaurants in Mumbai. So I smile at Julia and say, "You're right. It is the love line." And she glows with the pride of the American psychic...
...radio warned of "censorship" on the part of the protesting profs. The letter, which was signed by several notable members of the physics faculty, cites a 1990 speech made by Benedict, then the Vatican Cardinal in charge of Church doctrine, describing the Church's 17th century heresy trial against Galileo as "reasonable and fair." The famed Tuscan-born astronomer had been prosecuted for affirming that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but in fact orbited the Sun along with the other planets. Two years after the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's speech, Pope John Paul II expressed...
Though drawings featured prominently in Galileo's work, his role as artist and draftsman has until now been little more than a footnote in accounts of his life. The native of Pisa, Italy, born in 1564, would eventually be celebrated (and castigated) for his controversial celestial discoveries, his advocacy for an experiment-based approach to the natural world, and his complicated and combative relationship with the Church. Yet his artistic bent was central to his life, too. William Shea, who holds the Galileo Chair in History of Science at the University of Padua, notes that as a teenager the future...
Bredekamp, a scholar of both art history and the history of science, says this latest find shows vividly how art and science worked together in Galileo's mind. "It's not that Galileo used drawing just to illustrate the ideas he had already discovered, but that through the movement of his hand he became aware of what he was seeing," says Bredekamp. "Ideas come through drawing." That is something any doodler knows well. But few drawings have ever yielded ideas as revolutionary as those of Galileo...