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07 May 2020: Galileo and the science deniers, and physicists probe the mysterious pion
Nature Podcast
Galileo's Revolutionary Way of Thinking
The ancient Greeks thought that to discover facts about nature, all you need is to sit down and think about those. Galileo's artistic education helped him see the moon as a rugged surface with craters and mountains. He went on to make many more astronomical observations which led him to put the sun at the centre of the solar system rather than the Earth. Infamously, this culminated in him being put on trial by the Holy Inquisition and forced to denounce his life's work on his knees.
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