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through most of human history it was widely believed that the pinnacle of knowledge had already been reached whether despotic rulers royal bloodlines or religious deities it was the authority of the day which had the final word with their understanding of the universe unassailable there was no need to welcome any new ideas for our ancestors were told that everything there was to know had already been thought only someone with boundless courage and intellect could attempt to challenge this prevailing orthodoxy a mathematician a physicist an astronomer but most importantly a resolute truth seeker galileo galilei was that man probably doing more than any other to open the floodgates of scientific learning and further our understanding of the universe [Music] his inquisitive mind outpacing his body as soon as galileo learned of a strange device invented in the netherlands that could magnify distant objects he immediately visualized how he would set about constructing his own this of course was the telescope and galileo was the first to turn his towards our darkened starry skies gazing up at the heavens he observed a small constellation of what seemed to be stars surrounding jupiter eagerly looking on at night he observed that they wandered in a regular pattern like satellites around the gas planet jupiter he found had moons which orbited it then he turned his attention to venus and notes that he undergoes phases just like our moon thereby implying that it orbits the sun galileo's findings were groundbreaking shattering conventional wisdom he established that it was the sun not the earth which lay at the center of our solar system published in the hardening hostile 17th century religious climate of europe galileo was immediately a target with enemies mounting around him galileo sees the writing on the wall and writes to the grand duchess christina of tuscany in 1615 to offer a robust defense of intellectual freedom and the scientific method some years ago as your serene highness well knows i discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age the novelty of these things stirred up against me no small number of professors showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth they sought to deny and disprove the new things which if they had cared to look for themselves their own senses would have demonstrated to them persisting in their original resolve to destroy me and everything mine by any means they can think of these men have resolved to fabricate a shield for their fallacies out of the mantle of pretended religion and the authority of the bible they would have us altogether abandon reason and the evidence of our senses in favor of some biblical passage i think that in discussions of physical problems we ought to begin not from the authority of scriptural passages but from sense experiences and necessary demonstrations a religious man himself galileo expounds that science and reason are not incompatible with...