DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
Galileo before the Holy Office, a 19th-century painting
On This Day, June 22, 1633, Galileo Galilei, (1564–1642) convicted of heresy by the Roman Inquisiton for holding that the Earth revolves around the Sun in opposition to the Church's geocentric view that the Earth was the center of the Universe around which all heavenly bodies revolved. Galileo was forced to recant his views under threat of torture and was sentenced to life in prison. On the following day, this was commuted to house arrest, under which he remained for the rest of his life. The idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun (heliocentrism) was not new or unique to Galileo. It was suggested as early as the 3rd century BC but did not gain credence and proof until the work of the Polish Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in the early 1500's. Galileo was a devout Catholic and remained so his entire life. He did not feel science was a denial of religion but a way of better understanding God's creation. In 1992, 359 years later, Pope John Paul II would formally apologized for the Church's condemnation of Galileo.
According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called him the father of modern science. Initially studying medicine, he switched to mathematics and taught at the University level. He did work in gravity, inertia, pendulum motion, projectile motion. Developed a hydrostatic balance for measuring the density of objects. Developed the 'Scientific Method' of observation and hypothesis. Of course we all know the story of his dropping objects of the Tower of Pisa, observing that objects fell at the same rate regardless of weight. Later his interest turned to Astronomy. He did not invent the telescope but made is usable for celestial observation. Discovered the moons of Jupiter, the Rings of Saturn, discovered Sunspots. Made extensive observations and drawings of the moon. The list of his accomplishments goes on and on. Not all of his work was perfect but opened the way for future scientific study.
Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia
It's late and I wanna go to bed. Couldn''t find the knife I had planned so y'all get some randoms.
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