C.L.A.S.S. Compass Life Adult Sunday School
Pastor Pete
January 22, 2011
“Galileo Galilei”
I.
Book Review: “The Essential Galileo” by Maurice A. Finocchiaro,
Hackett Publishing Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana 2010.
II.
King James I
1566-1625
John Winthrop
1587-
King Charles I
1600-1649
Galileo
1564-
30 Year War
William Bradford
1618-1648
1590-1657
John Smyth
Richard Baxter
1649
1642
1570-1612
1615-
1691
II. Aristotelian Theory of the Center of the
Universe
The ______ model of the cosmos is a paradigm, which places the ___ at
the center of the universe. Common in ancient ____, it was believed by
both _____ and Ptolemy. Most Greeks assumed that the __, ____, __, and
____ orbit Earth. Similar ideas were held in ancient ___. The
geocentric model was gradually replaced by the _______ model of
Copernicus and Galileo due to the _____ and ______ accuracy of that
newer model. In this model, a set of fifty-five concentric crystalline
spheres were considered to hold the ___, the _____, and the stars.
These spheres (called deferents) revolved at varying velocities around
the Earth to account for the ____ and ____ of celestial objects every
day. However, this simple model of the revolutions of spheres could
___ explain all astronomical phenomena. In particular, planets were
observed to ____ across the fixed fields of stars over time; mostly
they wandered in ___ direction, but occasionally they seemed to reverse
course. To explain this strange retro gradation, Aristotle claimed that
planets were _______, not directly to deferents, but to smaller spheres
called epicycles. The epicycles were themselves attached to the
deferents; the simultaneous revolution of both sets of spheres created
an occasional apparent _____ of the planets' motions across the skies
of the Earth. Ptolemy further ______this model to more accurately
reflect observations by placing epicycles upon epicycles, creating an
extraordinarily complicated--but fairly accurate--depiction of the
cosmos. He also displaced the Earth from the center of the universe,
claiming that, while Earth was enclosed by the celestial spheres, the
spheres actually revolved around a point called an eccentric, which was
__ the Earth but not quite on it. This elaborate theoretical system
stemmed largely from two deeply held ____ beliefs: that the Earth was
the ___ of the universe, and that all ______ objects move in a uniform
circular motion. This view of a geocentric universe held sway for well
over a _______, until the publication of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus
Orbium Coelestium in 1543.
III.
Galileo Galilei the Great (1564-1642)
Born in ___ on February 15, 1564, Galileo was the son of Vincenzo
Galilei (1520-1591), a ____ scholar, and Giulia Ammannati (1538-1620).
He studied at the University of ___, where he held the ________ chair
from 1589 to 1592. He was then appointed to the chair of mathematics at
the University of _____, where he remained until 1610. In the Padua
years, he conducted studies and experiments in ______, built the
thermoscope, and invented and built the geometric and military ______.
In 1594, he patented a water-lifting machine. In 1609, he developed the
______, with which he performed the observations that led him to the
discovery of _____ moons. In 1610, he was appointed ________ and
philosopher to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He studied the peculiar
appearances of _____ and observed the phases of Venus. In 1611, he went
to ___, where he joined the Accademia dei Lincei and observed _____. In
1612, ______ arose to the Copernican theories, which Galileo _______.
In 1614, from the pulpit of Santa Maria Novella, Father Tommaso Caccini
(1574-1648) _____ Galileo's opinions on the motion of the Earth,
judging them _____and close to ____. Galileo went to Rome to ______
himself against these accusations. However, in 1616, Cardinal Roberto
Bellarmino (1542-1621) personally handed Galileo an _______ enjoining
him to neither advocate nor teach ______ astronomy, because it was
_____ to the accepted understanding of the Holy Scriptures. A decree of
February 19, 1616, summoned Qualifiers of the Holy Office and required
them to give their _____ on the two following propositions in Galileo's
work on the solar spots. (The assessment was made in ______, on
Wednesday, February 24, 1616.) Proposition to be assessed:
(1) The
sun is the ___ of the world and wholly immovable from its place.
Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared "________.
philosophically and formally heretical inasmuch as it expressly
contradicts the doctrine of the _________ in many passages, both in
their _____ meaning and according to the general interpretation of the
_______and the doctors of theology." (2) The earth is __ the center of
the world, nor ____, but it moves as a whole, also with diurnal
motion. Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared
"deserving of the like _____ in philosophy, and as regards theological
truth, to be at least _____ in faith."
Joshua 10:13; Psalm 19:1-5,
104:1-5; Isaiah 40:22. In 1622, Galileo wrote the Saggiatore [The
Assayer], which was approved and published in Rome in 1623. In 1624, he
developed the first known example of the ______. In 1630, he returned
to Rome to ____ for a license to print the Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi
[Dialogue on the Great World Systems], published in ______ in 1632. But
in October of that year, he was ordered to appear before the ________in
Rome. The court issued a sentence of _______ and forced Galileo to
abjure. He was confined in ____ and eventually, in December 1633, he
was allowed to retire to his villa in Arcetri. In 1634, he was _____ of
the support of his beloved daughter, Sister Maria Celeste (1600-1634),
who died prematurely. In 1638, he became almost totally ____. Galileo
died in Arcetri on January 8, 1642, and is buried in the Santa Croce
Church in ______. In 1979 ________asked that the 1633 conviction be
_____. However, since teaching the Copernican theory had been _____ in
1616, it was technically possible that a new trial could find Galileo
guilty; thus it was suggested that the 1616 prohibition be _____, and
this happened in 1992.
IV.
The Theory of Evolution and Church
Summarized briefly, ______ studied wildlife while on a voyage and he
noticed the ______ in the appearance of the individual animals. He
guessed that this variation, given enough ____, would allow these
animals to change to the point that they looked _____. The process of
changing an organism’s appearance through a series of small changes is
correctly called “________” and is ___ what we are referring to when we
write “the theory of evolution”.
After a series of microevolutionary
changes, a frog may be larger or changed in color, but it is still a
___—not a fish or a lizard. The textbooks and media teach us that we
came into ______ by a two step process: First, 10 plus _____ years of
____, random atomic _____ resulted in the formation of some simple form
of ___. Scientists call this development of living organisms from
nonliving matter _______. Second, they use Darwin’s theory, stating
that this simple life _____over the next _ plus billion years into the
plants, animals, and humans we see today—using the long term effects of
microevolutionary changes. Scientists call this process of developing
new life forms “_________” Both of these processes put together are
what the public at large and the scientific community think the “theory
of _____”. Therefore, abiogenesis combined ____ macroevolution is what
we are referring to when we write the “theory of evolution”
V.
Lessons from Galileo Galilei
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