Galileo's Handwritten Notes Discovered in a Medieval Astronomy Text (science.org)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/28/0419233/galileos-handwritten-notes-discovered-in-a-medieval-astronomy-text
- Source link: https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text
> Galileo's notes, perhaps written around 1590, or roughly 2 decades before his groundbreaking telescope observations of the Moon and Jupiter, reveal someone who both revered and critically dissected Ptolemy's work. And they imply, Malara argues, that Galileo ultimately broke with Ptolemy's cosmos because his mastery of the traditional paradigm's reasoning convinced him that a heliocentric [sun-centered] system would better fulfill Ptolemy's own mathematical logic.
[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text
This fake historical garbage again? (Score:2)
Galileo didn't discover heliocentrism.
1517 Martin Luther publishes the Ninety-Five Theses. The Protestant Reformation begins decades before Galileo’s conflict and reshapes the religious and political environment of Europe.
1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, a canon lawyer and church administrator, publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).
This work introduces the mathematical heliocentric model. The term “Copernican system” comes from this publication
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A fake version of history surrounding "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" is the basis for the anime "Orb".
Catholic priests, monks, or nuns also invented or discovered genetics, the primordial atom (Which was written off as an effort to invent creation/intelligent design as "the Big Bang"), the pendulum clock, the electric motor, the electric battery, and for some reason the bulletproof vest, among dozens of other inventions that make life possible.
Ok fine, while the Church was at it, we cured Malaria sav
No one is right about everything (Score:4, Insightful)
Science and new discoveries are rife with the tenet of assuming nothing done previously is canonic, but using the prior work to expand knowledge and understanding.
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What a world bereft of insight we live in when a platitude as banal as this is universally modded as "insightful."
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This "platitude" is the thrust of the article you chose to open, read, and reply to the comments on. What were you expecting to find here? Whatever you're looking for is probably on Facebook.
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It's arguably that specific position that gets you 'science' rather than something else. If there's insufficient interest in prior work or too much zeal for sticking it to the orthodoxy, man, you never actually get a research program; just individual theories advanced in relative isolation, often specifically tied to their creator and a few students, but just abandoned for the next individual theory rather than ever being worked up hard enough for the cracks to start to show. And, of course, if you declare