I am in the middle of 8 months journey that started in front of a glass of red wine with my dear friend Antonio, who believed with me that we can bring together a little bit more of Italian Culture here in Oulu area.
Today we will have - God bless internet and adobe connect! - an evening called "Serate Culturali" where a researcher in History of Science from Univeristy of Milano Bicocca will speak about Galileo Galilei and his revolution.
During the arrangements of the event I could refresh my memory and I found myself again passioned about the history, the science and the philosophy. Again I found the same enthusiasm what I had when I started university.
Why Galileo? and why Galileo was convicted and Copernico wasn´t?
During the years when Copernico started his work, probably the Church had so many other things to think about it. Martin Luther started already speak about his theories and Copernico used the math - the exact science by definition. The Church had bigger problem (Lutheranism) than Copernico...
Copernico was in one way lucky but he brought up so many ethical problems than even Michelangelo in his masterpiece of the Last Judgement could present.
Galileo instead was using the methods of Platone - the dialogue. This way to present the things were so vulnerable and could easily be destroyed from those who didn´t want to understand. To admit that the Earth wasn´t in the middle of everything couldn´t justify anymore what was written in the Bible.
Galileo was a man from the future and this evening I cannot wait to hear more about it!
