To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and therefore our planet was not the absolute center of the universe, as the Church maintained the Bible had it.

Galileo provides an excellent illustration of ... to any real improvement in those constraints. (In the play, the Church opposes the new science because it would lead to social disorder, as ...

The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

Gazing hands and blind spots: Galileo as draftsman Horst Bredekamp 4. The virgin and the telescope: the moons of Cigoli and Galileo Sara Booth and Albert van Helden Part III. The Contexts of the ...

A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the Church. It will be of particular interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those ...

There have been all sorts of concerns over whether building superintelligent AI systems might eventually go on to hurt ...