tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858684610739447040.post6572570243614498739..comments2023-05-16T10:21:03.286-05:00Comments on The Guy In the Window: Silence Galileo Againeutychushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10358483532981233704noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858684610739447040.post-14987696656946905992009-11-17T08:43:18.298-06:002009-11-17T08:43:18.298-06:00Galileo had good friends in high Church places who...Galileo had good friends in high Church places who had known him and his work for years.<br><br>Note also that G. believed with Aristotle that the planets moved in circles, even as his contemporary Kepler was developing the elliptical model.<br><br>Galileo was also wrong about the motion of pendulums, as well as tides, as you mention. <br><br>Galileo was right about some things, wrong about others. His run-in with the Church had more to do with his personality than disagreement over the as-yet (at that time) unproven theory of Heliocentrism, which was by Galileo's day an idea the West had known about for 2,000 years.<br><br>But the conventional-wisdom Galileo story is a fine stick to hit the Church with. Galileo himself would likely be appalled at how his name is now thus used.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4858684610739447040.post-64359073531523235392009-11-18T05:52:34.711-06:002009-11-18T05:52:34.711-06:00Thanks for the additional info KK and of course yo...Thanks for the additional info KK and of course you are right about his personality. But at least he didn't claim to have invented the internet. ;-)eutychushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10358483532981233704noreply@blogger.com