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vantage
a position, condition, or place affording some advantage or a commanding view.
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Galileo Galilei
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Galileo Galilei ( 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for heliocentrism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", and the "father of modern science".
His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments.
Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime
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Galileo affair
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The Galileo affair (Italian: Processo a Galileo Galilei) was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610, culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism.
In 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), describing the surprising observations that he had made with the new telescope, namely the phases of Venus and the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations he promoted the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus (published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543). Galileo's initial discoveries were met with opposition within the Catholic Church, and in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be formally heretical. Heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to refrain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas.
Galileo went on to propose a theory of tides in 1616, and of comets in 1619; he argued that the tides were evidence for the motion of the Earth. In 1632 Galileo, now an old man, published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which implicitly defended heliocentrism, and was immensely popular. Responding to mounting controversy over theology, astronomy and philosophy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633 and found him "vehemently suspect of heresy", sentencing him to indefinite imprisonment. Galileo was kept under house arrest until his death in 1642.
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NOVA
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Witness Galileo's famous struggle to persuade church authorities of the truth behind his discoveries about the cosmos. Aired October 29, 2002 on PBS
ALBERT VAN HELDEN: At the very end, he puts the words of the Pope in the mouth of the simpleton. That if God wanted to make the universe some other way, any other way, but make it appear to us the way it does now, he could have. And, therefore, none of these arguments about whether the Sun is the center or whether the Earth is the center can be definitive.
NARRATOR: Years earlier, when he had strolled through the Vatican gardens with Galileo, the Pope had made the very same argument, saying that the works of God can be beyond human understanding.
OWEN GINGERICH: Urban's advisors persuaded him that he had been the model for Simplicio and that he was being made a fool.
DAVA SOBEL: Urban took a very angry view of the book and the two never spoke again.
ALBERT VAN HELDEN: The Pope convened a special commission to look at the Galileo case, to look at the manuscript. And that commission, uh, recommended that...a process by the Inquisition.
NARRATOR: The Inquisition served a paper on Galileo ordering him to appear in Rome the coming October. The old man tried to delay his trip by claiming ill health. By Christmas, Galileo was again ordered to appear. He could come voluntarily, or he could come in chains.
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NOVA
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Witness Galileo's famous struggle to persuade church authorities of the truth behind his discoveries about the cosmos. Aired October 29, 2002 on PBS
NARRATOR: News of Galileo's confinement reached Maria Celeste, and she nervously sent off a letter of cautious advice, not knowing if it would ever get to her father.
MARIA CELESTE: Detained in the Chambers of the Holy Office. I have given no hint of these difficulties to anyone else, wanting to keep the unpleasant news to myself. Father, now it is the time to avail yourself of that prudence which the Lord God has granted you.
NARRATOR: The path Galileo followed to the chambers where he would hear his sentence led through the Cloisters of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. The walls and ceiling warned heretics what fate might await them.
INGRID ROWLAND: The people who were conducting the Inquisition hope that anybody who's coming into the Inquisition sees these scenes of people who've died in the correct faith, realize that they should use the courage of the martyrs to confront their own case, face their heresy squarely, and go off to their punishment with a clean conscience because it's been brought back to Orthodoxy.
NARRATOR: On the morning of his sentencing, Galileo was once more brought before the Inquisition, this time wearing the white robes of a penitent.
INQUISITOR: We pronounce sentence. We declare that you, Galileo Galilei, by reason of the matters detailed in this trial, have rendered yourself, in the Judgement of this Holy Office, vehemently suspected of heresy; namely, having held and believed a doctrine which is false and contrary to Scripture, that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move, that the Earth is not the center of the World and does move. We condemn you to formal imprisonment, in this Holy Office, at our pleasure.
NARRATOR: A settlement was likely worked out. Galileo was given a chance to renounce his errors. Rather than spending the rest of his life in a dungeon, the old man knelt as ordered.
GALILEO: I, Galileo, son of Vincenzo Galilei, of Florentine, 70 years of age, kneeling before you, swear that I have always believed, I believe now and, with God's help, I will always believe all that has been taught, held and preached by the Holy Catholic Church. I abjure with unfeigned faith and sincere heart. I curse and detest any errors and heresies, so help me, God. Amen.
NARRATOR: The trial of Galileo was over.
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Galileo affair
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Inquisition and first judgement, 1616
Deliberation
On February 19, 1616, the Inquisition asked a commission of theologians, known as qualifiers, about the propositions of the heliocentric view of the universe. Historians of the Galileo affair have offered different accounts of why the matter was referred to the qualifiers at this time. Beretta points out that the Inquisition had taken a deposition from Gianozzi Attavanti in November, 1615, as part of its investigation into the denunciations of Galileo by Lorini and Caccini. In this deposition, Attavanti confirmed that Galileo had advocated the Copernican doctrines of a stationary Sun and a mobile Earth, and as a consequence the Tribunal of the Inquisition would have eventually needed to determine the theological status of those doctrines. It is however possible, as surmised by the Tuscan ambassador, Piero Guiccardini, in a letter to the Grand Duke, that the actual referral may have been precipitated by Galileo's aggressive campaign to prevent the condemnation of Copernicanism.
Sentence
On February 24 the Qualifiers delivered their unanimous report: the idea that the Sun is stationary is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture..."; while the Earth's movement "receives the same judgement in philosophy and ... in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith." The original report document was made widely available in 2014.
At a meeting of the cardinals of the Inquisition on the following day, Pope Paul V instructed Bellarmine to deliver this result to Galileo, and to order him to abandon the Copernican opinions; should Galileo resist the decree, stronger action would be taken. On February 26, Galileo was called to Bellarmine's residence and ordered,
to abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it... to abandon completely... the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing.
— The Inquisition's injunction against Galileo, 1616.
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books banned by the Catholic Church. Following the Inquisition's 1616 judgment, the works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and others advocating heliocentrism were banned.
With no attractive alternatives, Galileo accepted the orders delivered, even sterner than those recommended by the Pope. Galileo met again with Bellarmine, apparently on friendly terms; and on March 11 he met with the Pope, who assured him that he was safe from persecution so long as he, the Pope, should live. Nonetheless, Galileo's friends Sagredo and Castelli reported that there were rumors that Galileo had been forced to recant and do penance. To protect his good name, Galileo requested a letter from Bellarmine stating the truth of the matter. This letter assumed great importance in 1633, as did the question whether Galileo had been ordered not to "hold or defend" Copernican ideas (which would have allowed their hypothetical treatment) or not to teach them in any way. If the Inquisition had issued the order not to teach heliocentrism at all, it would have been ignoring Bellarmine's position.
In the end, Galileo did not persuade the Church to stay out of the controversy, but instead saw heliocentrism formally declared false. It was consequently termed heretical by the Qualifiers, since it contradicted the literal meaning of the Scriptures, though this position was not binding on the Church.
Copernican books banned
Following the Inquisition's injunction against Galileo, the papal Master of the Sacred Palace ordered that Foscarini's Letter be banned, and Copernicus' De revolutionibus suspended until corrected.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
BORG QUEEN: We too are on a quest to better ourselves. Evolving toward a state of perfection.
DATA: Forgive me. The Borg do not evolve. They conquer.
BORG QUEEN: By assimilating other beings into our collective, we are bringing them closer to perfection.
DATA: Somehow I question your motives.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 04:02 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Saturday 28 December 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/12/see-its-this-kind-of-stuff-that-really.html
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FIRST CONTACT
EPISODE NUMBER - 510
DVD DISC - Season 5, Disc 3
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 09.26.08
DEX: So, you're going on this Daedalus thing?
KELLER: Yeah.
(She reaches for yet another bag but Ronon picks it up with his other hand.)
KELLER: Thank you.
(They walk out of the room.)
KELLER: I kind of have to. I'm the one that's gonna be administering the treatment -- if, you know, we ever get to that point.
DEX: Right. I think I should come with you on this.
KELLER: Really? Why?
DEX: I don't really trust these guys.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 December 2013 excerpt ends]
The Spokesman of Satan.
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 2
So Close, Yet So Far
Aired Sunday Aug 30, 2015 on AMC
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So Close, Yet So Far
Travis: Nick, stop, please.
- (tunes radio) - Man #2: And people act like this doesn't change everything. It does. This is a catastrophe of biblical proportions. We are losing the best pocket passer in the league! (tunes radio)
Nick!
(radio turns off)
No one's talking about this. No one's saying anything.
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