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Galileo's improvements to the telescope allowed him to make astronomical observations that supported Copernicus.
Galileo = important Italian astronomer and physicist (1564-1642)
- Galileo proved that different weights fall at the same speed when he dropped 2 balls of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- For four hundred years since Galileo, science has always proceeded as a free and open inquiry into the workings of nature.† (source)
- And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom").† (source)
- Just like Galileo's, my ideas were rejected.† (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)
- BIBLIOTECA ASTRONOMICA Aringarosa had heard of this place—the Vatican's Astronomy Library—rumored to contain more than twenty-five thousand volumes, including rare works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Secchi.† (source)
- I was a sophomore at Galileo High in San Francisco, and all my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were.† (source)
- It was fascinating to think about all the things you could learn there: Galileo's acceleration experiment, the dissection of rabbits, and making materials change state in a test tube.† (source)
- Well then, before tomorrow I have to finish reading the first volume of a biography of Galileo Galilei, since it has to be returned to the library.† (source)
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- Galileo Galilei, who was roughly contemporary with Kepler, also used a telescope to observe the heavenly bodies.† (source)
- Even Galileo recanted when he saw they really meant to go through with it!† (source)
- Later, when Don Galileo Daconte opened the first outdoor cinema, Jeremiah de Saint-Amour was one of his most dependable customers, and the games of chess were limited to the nights when a new film was not being shown.† (source)
- Newton was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1642, only a few years after the death of Galileo Galilei.† (source)
- Was that an exclamation of delight at the contributions made by Galileo?† (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)
- In Galileo's case it was the opposite: theoretic and scientific thought proving itself superior to mass opinion and dogmatism.† (source)
- "His name was Galileo Galilei," Langdon said. (source)
- Galileo's arrest threw the Illuminati into upheaval. (source)
- A little book written by a guy named Galileo. (source)
- Langdon thought of Galileo's belief of duality. (source)
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So the church tried Galileo as a heretic, found him guilty, and put him under permanent house arrest.
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Galileo = important Italian astronomer who said the earth circled the sun when the church believed the opposite (1564-1642)
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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.
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Galileo = important Italian astronomer and physicist (1564-1642)
- 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)
- 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)
- Galileo was an Illuminatus. (source)
- Galileo? (source)
- After all, hadn't Galileo climbed the Tower of Pisa when he executed his experiment?† (source)
- Galileo discovered that the same thing applied, for instance, to a cannonball.† (source)
- "You lack basic scientific training," Galileo said, shaking his head.† (source)
- But the greatest significance of Galileo was that he first formulated the so-called Law of Inertia.† (source)
- Galileo and some others joyfully carried a stake out of a dark corner.† (source)
- He was able to do so partly by referring to what we call Galileo's dynamics.† (source)
- Now in Galileo's time there were no trains.† (source)
- This was the kind of experiment Galileo did, you see.† (source)
- And this was actually a new discovery at the time of Galileo.† (source)
- Galileo was a thorn in the Vatican's side.† (source)
- Are you familiar with a book by Galileo called Dià logo?† (source)
- Galileo's Illuminati were not the least bit satanic.† (source)
- Looks like Galileo renouncing the geocentric model once and for all.† (source)
- I found the right theme, but Galileo's missing.† (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)
- 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)
- Diagramma is how Galileo got the word out.† (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 later took Galileo's ideas about mechanics and formalized them into his laws of motion.† (source)
- Newton's first law expanded on the work of Galileo.† (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)
- 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)
- "This is Galileo," said Aristotle.† (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)
- The applause came from Galileo.† (source)
- Galileo cackled.† (source)
- Galileo asked.† (source)
- Galileo snorted.† (source)
- But it was a theory Galileo rejected.† (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 shouted.† (source)
- Galileo sighed.† (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)
- The Assayer ....The Starry Messenger ....The Sunspot Letters ....Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ....Apologia pro Galileo ....On and on.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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, Dià logo was still seen as heretical, and the Vatican placed him under house arrest."† (source)
- Galileo didn't even write this.† (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)
- 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)
- 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,' " Danny was imitating Professor Appleman —or so I assumed; I didn't know Professor Appleman, but Danny's voice had taken on a somewhat professorial quality—" '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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: 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 egressive and reentrant orbits from perihelion to aphelion: the sidereal origin of meteoric stones: th† (source)
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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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