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	Life of Galileo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Life of Galileo, also known simply as Galileo, is a play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht which was first published in 1940.
		The plot of the play concerns the latter period of the life of Galileo Galilei, the great Italian natural philosopher, who was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for the promolugation of his scientific discoveries.
		Galileo uses the telescope to substantiate Copernicus' heliocentric model of our solar system, which is highly incompatible with both popular belief and church doctrine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life_of_Galileo (542 words)

	Galileo: His Life
		Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in the city of Pisa.
		Galileo's father wanted him to be a cloth merchant in Florence, but Galileo soon excelled way ahead of the other students to be a very talented musician, artist, poet, writer and an outstanding with model making of things related to the sciences.
		Galileo moved on to study Archimede's work of combining physics and mathematics, which led to Galileo becoming the founder of modern physics.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/Renaissance/Galileo.html (602 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Chronology \| Galileo Timeline
		Galileo is baptized in the baptistry of the cathedral of Pisa.
		Galileo attacks the problem of determining longitude at sea by means of eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter.
		Galileo sends a proposal to the States General of the Netherlands for determining longitude at sea using eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter.
	es.rice.edu /ES/humsoc/Galileo/galileo_timeline.html (4075 words)

	Galileo: A Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		So Galileo is a departure, but because science and its collision with theology in the early seventeenth century is new territory for Reston, he is able to transform it into fresh terrain for all his readers, even those most familiar with Galileo's tragic tale of genius and persecution.
		Galileo's rise is given in greater detail, especially his search for patronage, his intense defense of his work in the face of religious and intellectual resistance, and his ridiculing counterattacks on plagiarists and intellectual thieves.
		James Reston's Galileo: A Life is difficult to situate in the Galileo genre.
	www.beardbooks.com /galileo.html (1326 words)

	NOVA \| Galileo's Battle for the Heavens \| His Life \| PBS
		Galileo studies Greek, Latin, and logic at the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria di Vallombrosa and considers becoming a monk until his father expresses displeasure at the idea.
		Galileo's father dies at 70, and Galileo becomes the primary financial provider for his family, which includes his mother, his married sister Virginia (whose dowry requires regular payments), his 16-year-old brother Michelangelo, and his unmarried sister Livia.
		Galileo's daughter Virginia, known as Sister Maria Celeste, dies in the Convent of San Matteo in April.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/galileo/life.html (1129 words)

	Timeline of the life of Galileo Galilei
		Galileo is born to Vencenzo Galilei, a musician.
		Galileo applies and is awarded the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained until 1610.
		Galileo publishes his great work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems--Ptolemaic and Copernican) IN compliance with the Pope, the work is set as a conversation between two men discussing the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6739/galileoline.html (789 words)

	NASA - Galileo
		In 1589, Galileo was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa.
		Galileo observed that pendulums of equal length swing at the same rate whether their arcs are large or small.
		Galileo's law of falling bodies states that all objects fall at the same speed, regardless of their mass; and that, as they fall, the speed of their descent increases uniformly.
	www.nasa.gov /worldbook/galileo_worldbook.html (1269 words)

	Galileo Galilei Life
		Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa on February 15, 1564.
		In July, same year, Galileo observes Saturn with his telescope: since he cannot distinguish its rings with his instrument, he believes that it is composed by three separated celestial bodies, and he names it three-bodied Saturn.
		In April, 1630, Galileo completes his "Dialogo sui due massimi sistemi del mondo", (Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems) where the Copernican and Ptolemaic theories are compared; later he agrees with the Vatican on some changes in order to print the book, but he then decides to have it printed in Florence, in 1632.
	www.pd.astro.it /E-MOSTRA/NEW/A1001MAN.HTM (782 words)

	Galileo
		Galileo was born on February 15 1564 at Pisa and died on January 8, 1642 at Arcetri, near Florence.
		Galileo was under house arrest for the final eight years of his life for having held and taught, Copernican Doctrine.
		When Galileos demonstration that the earth moved was confirmed by the work of Newton and others, a battle was born in the history of rationalism that won at last, since it provided a decisive victory in a crucial case of conflict between reason and apparently revealed the truth in the life of Galileo.
	www.sevenwondersworld.com /Galileo.html (658 words)

	Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) - By Miles Hodges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But Galileo was a bit of a publicity hound--who found that his celebrity status could be greatly enhanced by clobbering the church with the metaphysical implications of his discoveries.
		Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy, in early 1564, eldest of seven.
		Life was described not as the outworking of inherent urges to completion by vast sets of beings and types of beings, each with their own distinct urges (which is what Aristotle thought gave them their particular identities).
	www.newgenevacenter.org /biography/galileo2.htm (2017 words)

	Life of Galileo
		Galileo was born in Pisa, Tuscany in 1564, the son of Florentine musician Vincenzo Galilei.
		Galileo decided it was because the earth was both rotating and moving around the sun, so for a given place on earth, its speed varies throughout the day, depending on whether its speed from the daily rotation is in the same direction as its speed from the earth's moving around the sun.
		Galileo was not too upset at the thought of a trial, because he held a trump card-the affidavit from Bellarmine.
	galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu /lectures/gal_life.htm (2554 words)

	Galileo's Daughter - Reviews
		Retelling the story of Galileo's famous battle with the Inquisition over geocentricism, she brings it to life by concentrating on the everyday- his professional feuds, his own sincere religious beliefs and- most important- his intense relationship with his eldest daughter, a cloistered nun.
		Forming the core of Galileo's Daughter, Maria Celeste's 124 surviving letters to her father (whose responses were likely destroyed by an abbess wary of the Inquisition) brim with concern for the health of [Galileo's] body and soul.
		Reading Sobel's depiction of Galileo's life, one is struck by the fact that some conflicts- freedom of thought and speech, the clash of new discoveries against established thought, the uneasy relationship between science and religion- are truly timeless.
	www.galileosdaughter.com /reviews.shtml (1115 words)

	:: NASA Quest > Archives :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564, 21 years after the death of Copernicus and three days before the death of Michelangelo.
		Galileo's father was hardly overjoyed about this turn of events, since a mathematician's earning power was roughly around that of a musician, but it seemed that this might yet allow Galileo to successfully complete his college education.
		Galileo needed the money to support his siblings, his mistress (a 21 year old with a reputation as a woman of easy habits), and his three children (two daughters and a boy).
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /galileo/About/galileobio.html (2600 words)

	ASU News & Information from the Office of Media Relations and Public Information
		PDT as Galileo's instruments will be reconfigured for the descent and the spacecraft begins its eight hour journey toward its determined spot of atmospheric entry.
		Another stop during Galileo's delay was Venus, where the spacecraft was able to collect data from deeper in the planet's atmosphere than earlier missions.
		Galileo has built the foundation for future exploration, pointing the way toward the next step in exploring the Jupiter system in particular.
	www.asu.edu /news/research/galileo_092203.htm (1094 words)

	Galileo
		The austere and devout life of Sister Maria Celeste’s small and nearly indigent Poor Clare convent in the seventeenth century, as well as the depth of her piety and intelligence, stand in marked contrast to the bleak portrait often painted by prejudiced observers of the Church on the eve of the so-called European Enlightenment.
		Galileo had so weighted his argument in favor of Copernican theory as truth – and managed to insult the pope’s own expressed view that complex matters observed in Nature were to be simply attributed to the mysterious power of God – that a firestorm was inevitable.
		The figure of Galileo took on an almost divine role in the redemption of mankind from the dogmatism of the past….The legend of Galileo came to be considered a central chapter in a long history of warfare between science and religion.
	www.catholicleague.org /research/galileo.html (5360 words)

	Galileo Galilei \| Astronomer and Physicist
		Galileo pioneered "experimental scientific method" and was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries.
		Galileo made a series of profound discoveries using his new telescope, including the moons of the planet Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus (similar to those of Earth's moon).
		Galileo's development of a telescope and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of the four writings included in this book.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96feb/galileo.html (766 words)

	A Hotlist on Galileo!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Galileo was the man who improved the telescope, and with it made numerous astronomical findings, including the evidence which supported Copernicus’ theory of the universe: that the sun, rather than the earth, is the center.
		Galileo Galilei - “Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who formulated the basic law of falling bodies, which he verified by careful measurements.
		Now it does not cover all of Galileo’s life and discoveries as other sites do, but instead focuses primarily on the trial of Galileo, where he had to present and argue his theories, and attempt to protect himself from the heresy charges which the church was pressing against him.
	www.kn.att.com /wired/fil/pages/listgalileome.html (1469 words)

	Drama Review: 'Life of Galileo'
		Bertolt Brecht's "Life of Galileo" is as unsurprisingly topical as it is consistently absorbing in Joe Discher's commendable staging for the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, now through August 21.
		The question of Galileo's heresy begins in a confrontation with three high-muck-a-mucks of the Roman Catholic Church, all of whom refuse on principle to look into his telescope when he has the temerity to suggest that man, the earth and, of course, the Pope by inference, are not in the center of the universe.
		As political theater "Life of Galileo" shows how reluctant the powers that be of an entrenched regime are to support, or give credence to any scientific or cultural breakthrough that might shake the foundations of its seemingly impregnable fortress.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200508/50817p04.html (658 words)

	Brecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Galileo was written not because Brecht showed great interest in the man or even his research, but because of the author's interest in the subject as a case study pertaining to his own modern world.
		In 1938, Galileo is portrayed as a man who cunningly outwits the Inquisition in order to pursue his research and smuggle his results out of the country.
		Galileo denounces himself in the play's final scenes because he has pursued knowledge for its own sake, not for the good of humanity.
	honors.uky.edu /colloquia/green201/thurman/thurman.html (425 words)

	AAAS and the Studio Theatre Present: The Life of Galileo--A Play for All Times
		AAAS and The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, are teaming up to present several performances of the play, The Life of Galileo, and other programs for local scientists, their families, and high school students.
		The Life of Galileo explores the classic struggle between religious and scientific worldviews and illuminates the challenges that Galileo experienced in advancing the unconventional idea that the earth revolved around the sun.
		In conjunction with The Studio Theatre's presentation of Brecht's The Life of Galileo, the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion is devoting the November 13th lecture by Annibale Fantoli of Victoria University to a presentation of current Galilean scholarship.
	www.aaas.org /spp/galileoplay/poster.shtml (511 words)

	Faculty of Fine Arts: Theatre @ York: Theatre @ York Season Culminates with Brecht’s Life of Galileo - Finds Modern ...
		Galileo was put on trial by the Inquisition, which convicted him of heresy and forced him to recant his belief in a Copernican “sun-centered” universe.
		Interestingly, the Vatican didn’t remove the verdict of heresy against Galileo until 1992, when Pope John Paul II asked the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to formally conduct an in-depth study of the church's case against Galileo.
		The cast for The Life of Galileo is drawn from the fourth-year undergraduate acting ensemble and graduate MFA acting class.
	www.yorku.ca /finearts/theatre/Theatre@York/lifeofgalileo_media.htm (461 words)

	The Life of Galileo
		At the dead center of Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo is a long conversation between Galileo (Tom Teti), the 17th century Italian astronomer, and a "Little Monk" (Benjamin Lloyd).
		Clavius, the official papal astronomer, has just declared that Galileo's findings about the moons of Jupiter, and the Copernican model for the universe that goes along with it, are accurate; at the same time the Church has declared these findings to be heretical, and has proscribed Galileo from either teaching or publishing them.
		He's worried, not that he might be tempted to disobey his church, but that the new science might destroy his parents' faith: that they will no longer be able to find in religion any solace for their miserable lives as impoverished peasant farmers.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/100595/article008.shtml (610 words)

	AroundCinci :: UC's College-Conservatory presents the Life of Galileo
		Brecht chose for his story the life of Galileo Galilei, the Renaissance scientist and teacher who was silenced by the Vatican for his apostasy.
		Galileo is summoned before the Inquisition, a formidable force not unlike today’s Justice Department.
		Galileo is no hero in this play; he lies, cheats, steals, and shuns his family in order to keep his pride.
	www.aroundcinci.com /gen_includes/article.asp?articleid=2721 (571 words)

	Galileo: life - part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the day that Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius was published, March 13, 1610, Sir Henry Wotton, the British Ambassador to Venice, wrote to his home office about the "strangest piece of news that hath ever yet received from any part of the world.
		After the publication, Galileo made new discoveries: sunspots, the rings of Saturn, and phases of Venus.
		In 1615-16, Galileo lobbied for acceptance of Copernican theory.
	puffin.creighton.edu /eselk/Galileo-for-church-history/Galileo-life-part2.htm (367 words)

	Galileo Conference, April 2002
		The Galileo Commission was wound up in 1992 with a brief report to the Pontifical Academy by the Commission’s Representative and a short address delivered by the Pope on the same occasion.
		Galileo’s encounter with Church authority long ago became accepted as a (some would say “the”) defining episode in the centuries-long interaction between religion and the sciences.
		That earlier conference deliberately left aside the thorny question of Galileo’s relations with the Church; the intention was to return to that theme at a later time in a conference devoted specifically to that topic.
	www.nd.edu /~hps/galileo-front.html (493 words)

	The Life Of Galileo
		Howard shows the various sometimes contradictory sides of Galileo’s temperament, including his need to be effectively and alternately conciliatory, condescending, humble, humorous, and defensive.
		This is a Galileo whom we see at critical moments in his life beginning in 1611 as he feels no compunction to claim the telescope as his own invention.
		Robbie Collier Sublett is something of a revelation, as Andrea Sarti, Galileo’s conscientious and supportive apprentice, who, despite the amusing distraction of his artfully disheveled hair, gives an engagingly savvy performance and generally illuminates the stage without upstaging his master.
	www.theaterscene.net /ts/articles.nsf/RP/A5DE2B8FB687CECD852570750054CFFB (692 words)

	Galileo: life - part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Shea proposes that the condemnation of Galileo "is perhaps the most dramatic incident in the long and varied history of the relations between science and religious faith" (LandN 114).
		Galileo was "a martyr for freedom of thought" (Shea in LandN 119).
		Galileo’s drawings of the surface of the moon in The Starry Messenger, 1610
	puffin.creighton.edu /eselk/galileo-for-church-history/galileo-life-part1.htm (325 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - Life of Galileo - 8/11/05
		The subject of Life of Galileo is the conflict between famed physicist-mathematician Galileo Galilei and the Roman Catholic Church over his observations and writings which offered the first proof for Copernicus’ theory that the earth orbits around the sun.
		In the 17th century, this was contrary to the Church’s interpretation of the bible which resulted in its teaching that the earth was the stationary center of the universe around which the sun and stars revolved.
		During these years, Galileo was kept under close clerical supervision and denied the right to write, travel, or have contact with the outside world.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/nj/nj107.html (783 words)

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