Lecture 16: The Starry Messenger - Galileo and the Telescope
b"Tycho reached the limits of what could be done with the naked eye. A\\nnew technology was required to extend our vision: the telescope. This\\nlecture introduces Galileo Galilei, the contemporary of Kepler who was\\nin many ways the first modern astronomer, and describes his many\\ndiscoveries with the telescope. These observations electrified Europe\\nin the early 17th century, and set the stage for the final dismantling\\nof the Aristotelian view of the world. Galileo's claims that they\\nconstituted proof of the Copernican Heliocentric System, however, were\\nto bring him into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. Recorded\\n2007 Oct 11 in 1000 McPherson Lab on the Columbus campus of The Ohio\\nState University."