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  • Galileo Galilei, who was roughly contemporary with Kepler, also used a telescope to observe the heavenly bodies.†   (source)
  • Newton was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1642, only a few years after the death of Galileo Galilei.†   (source)
  • On the right-hand wall of the vestibule, just inside the doors, there was a mural of the history of great ideas, beginning with a drawing of Moses holding the Ten Commandments, going on to Jesus, Mohammed, Galileo, Luther, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and ending with Einstein gazing at the formula E = MC2.†   (source)
  • Was that an exclamation of delight at the contributions made by Galileo?†   (source)
  • In Galileo's case it was the opposite: theoretic and scientific thought proving itself superior to mass opinion and dogmatism.†   (source)
  • Galileo's improvements to the telescope allowed him to make astronomical observations that supported Copernicus.
  • "You lack basic scientific training," Galileo said, shaking his head.†   (source)
  • "His name was Galileo Galilei," Langdon said.†   (source)
  • Galileo discovered that the same thing applied, for instance, to a cannonball.†   (source)
  • But the greatest significance of Galileo was that he first formulated the so-called Law of Inertia.†   (source)
  • Galileo was a thorn in the Vatican's side.†   (source)
  • Galileo and some others joyfully carried a stake out of a dark corner.†   (source)
  • Are you familiar with a book by Galileo called Diàlogo?†   (source)
  • He was able to do so partly by referring to what we call Galileo's dynamics.†   (source)
  • Galileo's Illuminati were not the least bit satanic.†   (source)
  • Now in Galileo's time there were no trains.†   (source)
  • Looks like Galileo renouncing the geocentric model once and for all.†   (source)
  • This was the kind of experiment Galileo did, you see.†   (source)
  • I found the right theme, but Galileo's missing.†   (source)
  • And this was actually a new discovery at the time of Galileo.†   (source)
  • Here are the scientists …. but where is Galileo?†   (source)
  • Milton's alleged affiliation with Galileo's Illuminati was one legend Langdon suspected was true.†   (source)
  • And certainly during the time period of the Galileo conflict.†   (source)
  • So, Professor, what's the name of this Galileo thing we're looking for?†   (source)
  • Confiscated from the Netherlands by the Vatican shortly after Galileo's death.†   (source)
  • Galileo was a scientist after all, and he was writing for scientists.†   (source)
  • Galileo's arrest threw the Illuminati into upheaval.†   (source)
  • He composed the poem for Galileo to publish in Folio 5 …. far from the eyes of the Vatican.†   (source)
  • DIAGRAMMA DELLA VERITA Galileo Galilei, 1639 Langdon dropped to his knees, his heart pounding.†   (source)
  • Accounts tracing the Illuminati back to Galileo, the Guerenets of France, the Alumbrados of Spain.†   (source)
  • Look for reference tabs that have anything to do with Galileo, science, scientists.†   (source)
  • A little book written by a guy named Galileo.†   (source)
  • Diagramma is how Galileo got the word out.†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of Galileo's belief of duality.†   (source)
  • "Hey," she said, "you're talking to an Italian marine physicist whose father worshiped Galileo."†   (source)
  • IL PROCESO GALILEANO Langdon let out a low whistle, now realizing why Galileo had his own vault.†   (source)
  • Langdon explained that Discorsi had not been Galileo's only work while under house arrest.†   (source)
  • Galileo's path of Illumination was a tribute to both science and God!†   (source)
  • "The Galileo Affair," he marveled, peering through the glass at the dark outlines of the stacks.†   (source)
  • Newton's first law expanded on the work of Galileo.†   (source)
  • Newton later took Galileo's ideas about mechanics and formalized them into his laws of motion.†   (source)
  • Galileo first introduced the concept of free fall.†   (source)
  • I couldn't care less about Galileo ...I don't give a damn about Galileo.†   (source)
  • ] …. and you go on walking, and you say to yourself, like Galileo, 'E pur si muove'.†   (source)
  • They see us as nothing but a quaint shopping district-an odd perception if you consider the nationalities of men like Einstein, Galileo, and Newton.†   (source)
  • The great open-air patio of Don Galileo Daconte, where on some nights one enjoyed the splendor of the stars more than the silent lovemaking on the screen, was filled to overflowing with a select public.†   (source)
  • Thus, in the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, a smash, a thunk, a thump, and a thud.†   (source)
  • On the previous night they had gone to the cinema, each one separately, and had sat apart as they had done at least twice a month since the Italian immigrant, Don Galileo Daconte, had installed his open-air theater in the ruins of a seventeenth-century convent.†   (source)
  • One day, I found her here testing the principles of Galileo and Newton by dropping various objects from the balcony and timing their descent with a sprinter's watch."†   (source)
  • These were the people who had just run out of the pyramid: the pope, Galileo, Aristotle, and Leonardo.†   (source)
  • Specifically, we will be testing Newton's calculation of the speed of gravity and Galileo's principle that objects with different mass fall at an equivalent rate."†   (source)
  • "This is Galileo," said Aristotle.†   (source)
  • The applause came from Galileo.†   (source)
  • Galileo snorted.†   (source)
  • Galileo shouted.†   (source)
  • But it was a theory Galileo rejected.†   (source)
  • Galileo asked.†   (source)
  • Here I go, dragging a girl who's not yet fifteen up to my attic, and she realizes exactly the same thing Galileo did after one single experiment!†   (source)
  • Galileo cackled.†   (source)
  • In calculating the planetary orbits he had merely applied two natural laws which Galileo had already proposed.†   (source)
  • That was because Galileo rejected the idea that the forces of gravitation could work over great distances, and also between the heavenly bodies.†   (source)
  • 'Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what can-not be measured,' said the Italian Galileo Galilei, who was one of the most important scientists of the seventeenth century.†   (source)
  • You could say that every single thought must be weighed and measured, rather in the way Galileo wanted everything to be measured and everything immeasurable to be made measurable.†   (source)
  • Galileo formulated it thus: A body remains in the state which it is in, at rest or in motion, as long as no external force compels it to change its state.†   (source)
  • Remember Galileo's inclined plane.†   (source)
  • The other law had been demonstrated by Galileo on an inclined plane: When two forces work on a body simultaneously, the body will move on an elliptical path.†   (source)
  • He didn't want the added encumbrance of a tweed jacket, nor did he have any intention of taking Galileo's Diagramma anywhere near the water.†   (source)
  • Galileo had no choice but to acquiesce to the church's demands and publish a book giving equal time to both the accurate and inaccurate models.†   (source)
  • The folio from Galileo's Diagramma.†   (source)
  • Galileo could have kept Bernini's true identity secret from most members …. for Bernini's own safety.†   (source)
  • It was as earthly a chapel as Langdon could fathom, almost as if Galileo and the Illuminati had designed it themselves.†   (source)
  • Diagramma was Galileo's most secretive work-supposedly some sort of treatise on scientific facts he held to be true but was not allowed to share.†   (source)
  • Bernini was a contemporary of Galileo.†   (source)
  • Like some of Galileo's previous manuscripts, Diagramma was smuggled out of Rome by a friend and quietly published in Holland.†   (source)
  • I suppose Galileo could have created some sort of mathematical code that went unnoticed by the clergy.†   (source)
  • Langdon recalled that much of Galileo's legal trouble had begun when he described planetary motion as elliptical.†   (source)
  • Galileo's Illuminati needed to protect themselves from the Vatican, so they founded an ultrasecret Illuminati meeting place here in Rome.†   (source)
  • So the church tried Galileo as a heretic, found him guilty, and put him under permanent house arrest.†   (source)
  • It is accepted theory now that the clue exists and that Galileo mass distributed it to the scientific community without the Vatican ever knowing.†   (source)
  • Galileo's Illuminati, however, saw perfection in the ellipse as well, revering the mathematical duality of its twin foci.†   (source)
  • Langdon could see that the top sheet was an ornate pen and ink cover sheet with the title, the date, and Galileo's name in his own hand.†   (source)
  • So you're saying maybe Galileo considered English la lingua pura because it was the one language the Vatican did not control?†   (source)
  • Or maybe by putting the clue in English, Galileo was subtly restricting the readership away from the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Milton knew Galileo, didn't he?†   (source)
  • In the blackness, Langdon sensed the ghost of Galileo, climbing these very stairs, eager to share his visions of heaven with other men of science and faith.†   (source)
  • They regularly petition us for retraction of Creationist theory, formal apologies for Galileo and Copernicus, repeal of our criticism against dangerous or immoral research.†   (source)
  • If this segno, this clue, this advertisement about the Path of Illumination was really in Galileo's Diagramma, why didn't the Vatican see it when they repossessed all the copies?†   (source)
  • The symbol itself was created by an anonymous sixteenth-century Illuminati artist as a tribute to Galileo's love of symmetry-a kind of sacred Illuminati logo.†   (source)
  • And yet Galileo was persistent.†   (source)
  • The influential English poet who wrote Paradise Lost was a contemporary of Galileo's and a savant who conspiracy buffs put at the top of their list of Illuminati suspects.†   (source)
  • Since the days of Galileo, the church has tried to slow the relentless march of science, sometimes with misguided means, but always with benevolent intention.†   (source)
  • "As you probably know," Langdon said, "despite Galileo's compromise, Diàlogo was still seen as heretical, and the Vatican placed him under house arrest."†   (source)
  • Galileo didn't even write this.†   (source)
  • Galileo was an Illuminatus.†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of Galileo.†   (source)
  • In the early 1630s, Galileo had wanted to publish a book endorsing the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system, but the Vatican would not permit the book's release unless Galileo included equally persuasive evidence for the church's geocentric model-a model Galileo knew to be dead wrong.†   (source)
  • When did Galileo publish ….†   (source)
  • Word of Galileo's brotherhood started to spread in the 1630s, and scientists from around the world made secret pilgrimages to Rome hoping to join the Illuminati …. eager for a chance to look through Galileo's telescope and hear the master's ideas.†   (source)
  • Meaning Galileo hid it well.†   (source)
  • On any other day, he would have been fascinated to read it; incredibly NASA's current model of planetary orbits, observed through high-powered telescopes, was supposedly almost identical to Galileo's original predictions.†   (source)
  • Galileo was a poet?†   (source)
  • Santi was a behemoth in the art world, and being known solely by one's first name was a level of fame achieved only by an elite few …. people like Napoleon, Galileo, and Jesus …. and, of course, the demigods Langdon now heard blaring from Harvard dormitories-Sting, Madonna, Jewel, and the artist formerly known as Prince, who had changed his name to the symbol , causing Langdon to dub him "The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh.†   (source)
  • Nothing like Galileo.†   (source)
  • Galileo's ellipses?†   (source)
  • Galileo?†   (source)
  • For a moment, hearing the verse aloud, Langdon felt transported in time …. as though he were one of Galileo's contemporaries, listening to the poem for the first time …. knowing it was a test, a map, a clue unveiling the four altars of science …. the four markers that blazed a secret path across Rome.†   (source)
  • Galileo's Diagramma.†   (source)
  • Apologia pro Galileo ….†   (source)
  • Galileo's behest.†   (source)
  • Exactly like Galileo.†   (source)
  • Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†   (source)
  • Even in the time of Newton and Galileo, men knew more about the moon and other heavenly bodies than they did about their own.†   (source)
  • 'Dogmatic Freudians are generally to be regarded as akin to the medieval physicists who preceded the era of Galileo.†   (source)
  • According to legend, Galileo dropped balls of different mass from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to help support his ideas.†   (source)
  • Just as Galileo and Newton explain in their theories of free fall, the least massive and most massive riders fall to the earth with the same rate of acceleration.†   (source)
  • Building on the work of predecessors such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler, he laid out the principles of his laws of motion, the universal theories that tied the work of these great minds together.†   (source)
  • I couldn't care less about Galileo ….†   (source)
  • The hero-deed to be wrought is not today what it was in the century of Galileo.†   (source)
  • I'd have done what Galileo did—backed out of it.†   (source)
  • The Banner ran articles on man martyred by society: Socrates, Galileo, Pasteur, the thinkers, the scientists, a long, heroic line—each a man who stood alone, the man who defied men.†   (source)
  • I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hairsplitting speech.†   (source)
  • Our poor, great Galileo's arguments proved to be the more valid ones.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: I tell you, it is there, There, that they send me for my Paradise, There I shall find at last the souls I love, In exile,—Galileo—Socrates!†   (source)
  • He read the classics of physical science: Copernicus and Galileo, Lavoisier, Newton, LaPlace, Descartes, Faraday.†   (source)
  • That the church was in the hands of the merchants at the moment was obvious enough; but already there were signs of rebellion, and if Comrade Schliemann could come back a few years from now— "Ah, yes," said the other, "of course, I have no doubt that in a hundred years the Vatican will be denying that it ever opposed Socialism, just as at present it denies that it ever tortured Galileo."†   (source)
  • The argumentation of the Holy Office against Galileo stated that his theses were philosophically absurd.†   (source)
  • Was he one of those unappreciated scholars, one of those geniuses "embittered by the world," as Conseil expressed it, a latter–day Galileo, or maybe one of those men of science, like America's Commander Maury, whose careers were ruined by political revolutions?†   (source)
  • Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars.†   (source)
  • "Certainly," continued Homais, "there is bad literature as there is bad pharmacy, but to condemn in a lump the most important of the fine arts seems to me a stupidity, a Gothic idea, worthy of the abominable times that imprisoned Galileo."†   (source)
  • Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.†   (source)
  • Did not Galileo do the same by Saturn?†   (source)
  • Pythagoras[186] was misunderstood, and Socrates,[187] and Jesus, and Luther,[188] and Copernicus,[189] and Galileo,[190] and Newton,[191] and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.†   (source)
  • But what I am anxious to arrive at is it is one thing for instance to invent those rays Rontgen did or the telescope like Edison, though I believe it was before his time Galileo was the man, I mean, and the same applies to the laws, for example, of a farreaching natural phenomenon such as electricity but it's a horse of quite another colour to say you believe in the existence of a supernatural God.†   (source)
  • …their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical…†   (source)
  • As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon: Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades Delos or Samos first appearing, kens A cloudy spot.†   (source)
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