Why Did Galileo Inaugurate The Scientific Revolution?

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“ Experimental Science is the Queen of All Sciences, the goal of all our speculation.” This is one of the famous sayings of Roger Bacon (1214 – 1294). Roger Bacon is believed to the first scientist to inaugurate the Scientific Revolution. Coming from the early Stone Age to the 13th century, Mother Earth has already gone through a complete metamorphosis. In another word, human life has changed remarkably. But, Science and Technology brought a different layer of development. In fact, human started believing anything is possible in this Earth with the help of science. Indeed, more and more scientist started focusing on their research and began proving everything. During 12the century, scientists like Galileo, Newton, and so had made people aware …show more content…
At the same time, the church was against these scientific discoveries. Despite incredible discoveries, the church arrested Galileo. Catholic church claimed hat Galileo geocentric model is false, and science was not working for the people. In fact, the reasons behind Galileo arrest was a church was losing its power against people. Galileo discovery of telescope made church show scorn feelings towards him. They started showing hostile feelings against him and finally arrested him. But, “letter to Don Benedetto” has well expressed Galileo’s discoveries and its truthiness. In the letter, Galileo has answered all the concerns of the church. “So to the third question: that of these two motions of the Sun produces day and night, the Sun’s real motion or that of the Primum Mobile? The answer has to be that day and night are the result of the motion of the Primum Mobile, and the Sun’s own motion produces not day and night but the changing seasons, and the year itself” (Source: letter to Don Benedetto”). His arrest did not stop thinkers to research. But, this made them focus more instead. People started raising questions against the church about the Galileo’s arrest. The church, in fact, responded vigorously, and, perhaps surprisingly, that response did not exclude the growth of science (pg. 474). People started revolting against the church. People knew science is the backbone of the development and the success, and they should never stop