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Galileo was a towering figure. It's generally accepted that he was in
error in several respects - like all of the intellectual giants - of
which his most famous is the supposition that the acceleration of a
ball released down a channel varied in a particular way with the angle
of the wood molding. It's the nature of the game. Do you object to
people mentioning that earlier giants made errors, or just when the
Church is involved?
As to geocentrism: the only observational evidence currently available
places Earth at the center of the inhabited universe as far as Human
like qualities are concerned. Though observing parallax differences for
the menstrual variation in Earth's location is difficult, it is now
established quite well that Earth shows an annual displacement
consistent with an Earth orbit round a fast moving Sun. So one can say
with some confidence "il muove".
Then there was Lamarck - another figure who was soon discredited, and
now finds some support in the environmental effect now discovered on
gene-expression and transmission. Well, waddaya know!
Discovery and model making, it is true, never ends.
Brian W
On 9/19/2010 6:18 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
As Dean wrote, "our" work is never done:
Galileo Was Wrong
bc thinks may be a hoax
Original post:
If it didn't conflict with our upcoming NCNAAPT conference (November 6 in Concord), I would highly recommend the upcoming "Galileo Was Wrong! The Church was Right!" conference to be held in the shadow of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN.
No, really; it's a serious geocentrism conference in 2010!
Lest you ever think your work as a science educator is ever done...
http://phyzblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/galileo-was-wrong-oh-i-dont-think-so.html
Take care,
Dean
http://phyz.org
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