Galileo study questions

the answers to these questions can be found in Wednesday's film.

0. When and where did Galileo live?

1. What did Galileo need as scientific proof? (Anything less, he deemed conjecture or opinion.)

2. What did observing the phases of Venus prove?

3. How did Galileo address the apparent conflict between Copernicus’ sun centeric universe and the book of Joshua in the Bible?

4. Cardinal Bellarmine delivered what edict to Galileo? What happened to Galileo’s book?

5. What did Galileo’s observations of the tides prove?

6. What thought-experiment did Galileo propose to explain why we cannot feel the motion of the earth?