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  • Londres, la lettre « hérétique » de Galilée a été trouvée. Galilée soutient ici pour la première fois que la recherche scientifique doit être libérée de la doctrine théologique.

    Londra, ritrovata la lettera «eretica» di Galileo Galilei. «E’ l’originale» - Repubblica.it
    https://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2018/09/21/news/ritrovata_la_lettera_eretica_di_galileo-207039578

    NON ERA neanche troppo nascosta. La lettera perduta in cui Galileo Galilei mise giù le sue tesi contro l’idea, sostenuta dalla Chiesa, che fosse il Sole a ruotare intorno alla Terra, si trovava in una biblioteca di Londra. In possesso della Royal Society da almeno 250 anni, ma sfuggita all’attenzione degli storici, è stata rintracciata e scoperta da Salvatore Ricciardo, giovane ricercatore dell’università di Bergamo.

    Exclusive: Galileo’s original letter arguing against church doctrine that the sun orbits the earth has been discovered, revealing new details about the saga that led to his condemnation for heresy. https://t.co/S7bKYWS2bB
    — Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) 21 settembre 2018

    La lettera del 1613, lunga sette pagine e firmata in calce G. G. , era indirizzata all’amico Benedetto Castelli, matematico dell’università di Pisa. Qui Galileo sostiene per la prima volta che la ricerca scientifica deve essere libera dalla dottrina teologica. Una lettera che scatenò un putiferio, ma che si tinse anche di giallo.

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      La lettre de 1613, de sept pages et signée à G. G., était adressée à son ami Benedetto Castelli, mathématicien de l’Université de Pise. Galilée soutient pour la première fois que la recherche scientifique doit être exempte de doctrine théologique.

      1615. La lettre perdue dans laquelle Galilée Galilée posait sa thèse contre l’idée, soutenue par l’Eglise, que le Soleil allait tourner autour de la Terre, se trouvait dans une bibliothèque de Londres.

      Le compromis de 1615

      En décembre 1614, le frère dominicain Tommaso Caccini prononce à Florence un sermon contre les mathématiciens, dénonçant le soutien de Galilée à la théorie copernicienne qui affirme que la Terre tourne autour du Soleil. Lorsqu’il apprend la nouvelle, Ciampoli va voir Barberini le soir même. Le cardinal est un personnage influent à la cour de Rome. Les amis de Galilée lui font parvenir une longue lettre que l’astronome avait adressée à son disciple Benedetto Castelli un an auparavant, dans laquelle il développait une interprétation de l’Écriture fondée sur le principe de l’accommodation : selon celui-ci, dans le domaine de la cosmologie, qui ne concerne pas le salut des âmes, la recherche scientifique est indépendante de la théologie et les exégètes de la Bible sont appelés à adapter leurs interprétations aux découvertes des savants.

      En février 1615, les dominicains de Florence font parvenir au Saint-Office romain une copie de cette même lettre et le tribunal de l’Inquisition ouvre une enquête car un savant laïc se permet de dicter leur conduite aux théologiens. Dans le même temps, des pourparlers sont engagés avec les autorités ecclésiastiques romaines par le prélat Piero Dini, le prince Cesi et le prêtre humaniste Ciampoli pour empêcher une condamnation de l’héliocentrisme. La correspondance de Galilée nous apprend que le cardinal Barberini accepte de s’exprimer en sa faveur mais qu’il l’invite en même temps à éviter les questions d’exégèse.

      http://www.lhistoire.fr/les-enjeux-dun-proc%C3%A8s

  • When the Heavens Stopped Being Perfect - Issue 58: Self
    http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/when-the-heavens-stopped-being-perfect

    I have in my hand a little book titled The Starry Messenger (Sidereus Nuncius in its original Latin), written by the Italian mathematician and scientist Galileo Galilei in 1610. There were 550 books in the first printing of Messenger. One hundred and fifty still remain. A few years ago, Christie’s valued each first edition at between $600,000 and $800,000. My paperback copy was printed in 1989 for about $12. Although the history of science has not awarded Messenger the same laurels as Newton’s Principia or Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, I regard it as one of the most consequential volumes of science ever published. In this little book, Galileo reports what he saw after turning his new telescope toward the heavens: strong evidence that the heavenly bodies are made of ordinary (...)

  • By Jove! | The Economist

    http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21701463-mission-jupiter-designed-investigate-giant-planets-historyand?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2016071n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/E/n

    IN 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus proposed, in a mathematically rigorous way, that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, and thus that all things do not revolve around it. In fact, only the Moon does so. Seven decades later Galileo Galilei provided more direct proof of Earth’s lack of specialness. He looked at Jupiter through a primitive telescope and found that the planet had four moons of its own.

    #espace #jupiter spécialement pour @fil

    Four centuries after Galileo’s discovery, it remains impossible to understand the solar system without understanding Jupiter. The sun accounts for 99.8% of the solar system’s mass. But Jupiter, which is more than twice as massive as the other seven planets put together, makes up most of the rest. Its heft shapes the orbits of the other planets, the structure of the asteroid belt and the periods of many comets. And the four moons observed by Galileo (seen to the left-hand side of Jupiter in the picture above) have proved merely the biggest members of an entire solar system in miniature: at the moment Jupiter has 67 known satellites.

  • The Neuroscience of Wine - Issue 33 : Attraction
    http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/the-neuroscience-of-wine

    Galileo Galilei is best known for his novel way of looking at Earth’s place in the solar system and his consequent problems with the Vatican. But long before all the fuss blew up over his cosmology, Galileo told us that while the physical attributes of the planet are present, they are perceptually nonexistent until they have been interpreted by our senses. This theory applies to wine as much as to anything else, and Galileo, who described wine as “sunlight, held together by water,” did not forget that fact. As he put it, “A wine’s good taste does not belong to the objective determinations of the wine and hence of an object, even of an object considered as appearance, but belongs to the special character of the sense in the subject who is enjoying this taste.” Anyone who has ever attended a (...)