"16001634" - 1 õppematerjal

Teaduslik revolutsioon

assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion. The trial at an end, the abjuration made public, the broken Galileo spent his remaining eight years under house arrest at his villa outside Florence. It was at this time that he wrote perhaps his finest book, th Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, a study of motion and inertia. His eldest daughter, Sister Marie Celeste (16001634), whom he had sent to a convent [ nunnaklooster ]against her wishes twentythree years earlier, stayed with him to the end. Every day she said the seven Psalms of penitence ordered by the Holy Office as part of his sentence. Galileo continued to gaze at the stars through his telescope until 1637, when his sight finally failed him. "This universe that I have extended one thousand times," he wrote, "has now shrunk to the narrow confines of my