Galileo, Science, and the Church by Jerome J. Langford Essay -- Galile

Galileo, Science, and the Church by Jerome J. LangfordScience and the church, two things that you would not ordinarily think would go together until until Galileo came along. Galileo, a man that stuck his drumhead out to the world, but especially to the church, when maybe he should have through things a little differently. This particular throw shows some(prenominal) accounts of the troubles between Galileo and the church, and with other(a) bystanders. The book goes through the ups and downs of Galileo and the church, the hardships, and friendships that people held, and how hard it was to keep those friendships during the days of Galileo. The book reveals many alliances, and loyalties, but also it also reveals distrust, and clouded minds, of both Galileo and the church. end-to-end the book you learn the different approaches of scientific belief. There was of course the Aristotelic right smart of the universe, and there was also the Ptolemaic way. The differences between these t wo were not too major, they both believed the Earth did not move. There was a refreshful system in the works the Copernican theory, which believed that the Earth was not the amount of money and was mobile, but the sun was the center. Copernicus did not get to back his theory the way he would have wanted but Galileo assumed the ropes and brought it to the full front.Galileo had many problems trying to introduce the Copernican theory to be relevant. Scripture from the beatified Bible was one problem that Galileo had to face. Ca...