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[00:00.96]Lesson 32
[00:02.85]Galileo reborn
[00:10.06]What has modified our traditional view of Galileo in recent times?
[00:17.77]In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of violent controversy, but the scientific dust has long since settled,
[00:26.84]and today we can see even his famous clash with the Inquisition in something like its proper perspective.
[00:34.42]But, in contrast, it is only in modern times that Galileo has become a problem child for historians of science.
[00:44.11]The old view of Galileo was delightfully uncomplicated.
[00:48.63]He was, above all, a man who experimented:
[00:52.78]who despised the prejudice and book learning of the Aristotelians,
[00:57.49]who put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients, and who drew his conclusions fearlessly.
[01:05.65]He had been the first to turn a telescope to the sky,
[01:09.37]and he had seen there evidence enough to overthrow Aristotle and Ptolemy together.
[01:15.98]He was the man who climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped various weights from the top,
[01:22.40]who rolled balls down inclined planes, and then generalized the results of his many experiments into the famous law of free fall.
[01:33.86]But a closer study of the evidence,
[01:36.04]supported by a deeper sense of the period, and particularly by a new consciousness of the philosophical undercurrents in the scientific revolution,