![]() ![]() Galileo was a professor of mathematics, first at the University of Pisa, where he had been born, and then at Padua, perhaps establishing a reputation for his willingness to offend Aristotelian philosophers perhaps, with the publication of De Motu ( On Motion), but for little more. ![]() The reality is not so starkly drawn, but no less interesting for that Galileo’s own arrogance created many enemies, and Rome’s anxiety over its authority in the schismatic era of the Protestant reformation made their collision inevitable. We have all been taught the story of his heroic fight in the name of science against the intractable ignorance of the tyrannical Catholic church. Today Galileo is a famous and romantic name.
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