Series 3, Episode 2 - Galileo Galilei

Kennardley speaks with Galileo Galilei about his work on the telescope, astronomy, the heliocentric model of the universe and his clash with the Catholic Church over heresy charges.

References

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/astronomy-biographies/galileo#:~:text=Personal%20Traits.,a%20teacher%20are%20beyond%20question.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

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Episode Highlights

00.00 - Intro

01.11 - Galileo’s Birth and parents.Studying Medicine.

02.33 - Early Education/Studying Mathematics

04.46 -The Mathematics chair at Pisa University.

05.15 - Proving Aristotle wrong. Work on motion and kinetics

06.38 - Fathers death, financial burden and the University of Padua

07.53 - First interest in Astronomy and Copernicanism/Heliocentrism

09.32 - Children with mistress Maria Gamba.

10.28 - Diurnal parallax, more evidence backing Heliocentrism.

11.23 - The Telescope and astronomy.

13.19 - Mathematician and Philosopher to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

14.00 - Discovering the phases of Venus and Jupiters Moons.

14.17 - First problems with the Catholic Church.

16.15 Attempt to solve the longitude problem.

16.50 Argument with Orazio Grass and the jesuits. Writing Il Sagiottore (The assayer)

18.04 Writing “The Dialogue Concerning two World Systems” and heresy charges.

20.12 Sentenced to house arrest.

21.09 - Writing “Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences”

22.03 - Death in 1642 aged 77

22.26 - Outro.

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