Sixteen yers later Galileo wrote his famous ‘Dialogue on the two great world systems’

Does the trial of Galileo indicate that the church was hostile to new ideas in science? Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) proved to be the first dramatic example of conflict between science and religion. Galileo introduced and correctly explained the idea- what is the acceleration of a free falling object, by doing this he quashed the previous theories of his predecessor, Aristotle. Aristotle came up with the theory that the weight of an object and the medium …

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