![]() ![]() Those who are distraught by the assault on science and reason that has infected today’s body politic might take some solace in knowing that it is not entirely without precedent. Gerrit Lansing, author of Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth #GALILEO GALILEI AND YET IT MOVES SERIES#In an artful euphonic voice he recreates the struggle, striking just tones of irony and indignation, making a laudable series of poems of historic imagination. Gallagher’s subject is a fitful combat of intellectual and cultural emancipation from the tyranny of the Church during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Whereas in Kevin Gallagher’s previous book of poems, LOOM, he dealt with the relationship of Northern industrialists and Southern plantation owners in a struggle toward the Emancipation, this book ‘ And Yet it Moves’ is a ‘translation’ of Galileo’s whispered teaching, Eppur si muove, after threats of torture and death by the Inquisition. Upon his sentencing, Galileo’s is said to have uttered ‘ Eppur si muove, ' knowing that the truth would eventually prevail. Digging with his pen, Gallagher brings these stories back in ‘talking sonnets,’ as if ditching the Latin for the more colloquial Italian of the people that came into form during the era. When Galileo’s patrons the powerful Medici rose to the Papacy, they chose their power over science and reason-sentencing and silencing Galileo for life for proving that the earth revolved around the sun. The book birthed humanist philosophy, masterworks such as the Birth of Venus, and inspirations for Galileo Galilei. Lucretius’s poem is a meditation of the universe as infinite numbers of atoms wandering randomly through space with no master plan whatsoever. The world changed when Poggio Bracciolini discovered Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things in a Benedictine library. Gallagher follows Petrarch, who spawns a new lyric in part inspired by lost texts, and who motivates ‘book hunters’ of the Renaissance to search for the buried as well. Click here to read the rest of the article.In And Yet it Moves, the poet is an archeologist of mourning rediscovering that assaults on science and reason are not new phenomenon. This article was written by Patrick Rhodes and published on January 12, 2016. ![]() 11, 2016, after a long struggle and costing over half a billion dollars, our perception of reality was fundamentally altered when gravitational waves were announced to have finally been directly observed. #GALILEO GALILEI AND YET IT MOVES HOW TO#Likewise, gravitational waves were also predicted by mathematics, but in the early 20th century, nobody knew how to measure them. In effect, Copernicus and Galileo demonstrated a common approach to the accumulation of scientific knowledge, that is, through mathematical prediction and observation - and the obstacles that must be overcome to bring this knowledge to light. Although he was later confined to his house by order of the church for challenging the Bible's teaching in Chronicles 16:30, which states "the world is firmly established it cannot be moved", he remained resolute, stating "and yet it moves". Galileo, using a new invention called a telescope, was able to confirm these mathematical computations through observation, albeit indirectly. Nearly 70 years prior to this "Galileo affair" as it has come to be known, Copernicus had published the first mathematical, geometric system to place the sun at the center of the solar system in his widely circulated book entitled On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543). Despite religious pressure to acquiesce, he refused. Galileo Galilei knew the Earth revolved around the Sun and that it wasn't, as the Catholic Church would have him believe, some unmoving object around which everything else revolved. ![]()
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