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Re: [Phys-l] Galileo was wrong

I think this was an ambiguous antecedent. Kepler was outside, but Galileo
inside. As I understood Brahe actually was doing his observations with the
support of the Pope, but Kepler ran off with his notebooks after Brahe's
death.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


I find it hard to think of Galileo as being outside the influence of
the Catholic Church. He seems like a pretty go insider to me.

He needed some sort of circular inertia to explain the continue
motion of the planets. Just a guess, perhaps he appealed to the
ideal circular motion as why they continued.