Galileo: Facts, Fiction, Mystery and Science.

Galileo

15 February 1564^[3] – 8 January 1642)
Italian
polymath: 
astronomer, 
physicist, 
engineer, 
philosopher, 
and mathematician, 
scientific revolution 
father of scientific method
Venus, Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), sunspots. 
heliocentrism not geocentrism  
tried by the Inquisition,"vehemently suspect of heresy",  
 house arrest
 wrote Two New Sciences, 

Task 1: Match the words above to the descriptions below

Galileo - Indigo Girls

Galileo's head was on the block                                                    
The crime             1           (look) up the truth
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
I try to trace them to my youth

And then you had to bring up reincarnation 
Over a couple of beers the other night
And now           2        (to serve) time for mistakes 
Made by another in another lifetime

(Chorus) How long 'til my soul         3       (to get) it right 
Can any human being ever        4       (reach) that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of Galileo king of night vision
King of insight

And then I think about my fear of motion
Which I never could explain
Some other fool across the ocean years ago
Must             5        (crash) his little airplane

(Chorus) 

          6            (to make neg.) a joke
You know me I take everything so seriously
If we          7        (to wait) for the time till our souls         8       (to get) right
Then at least I know there         9      (to be) no nuclear annihilation in my lifetime 
I'm still not right

(Instrumental)

I offer thanks to those before me
That's all I've got to say
'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Now I have to pay

But then again it        10      (to feel) like some sort of inspiration
To let the next life off the hook
Or she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life
I think               (to write) a book

How long until my soul gets it right 
Can any human being ever reach the Highest Light
Except for the Galileo
King of night vision king of insight

How long…
(Til my soul gets it right)
(Til we reach the highest light)
How long…
(Til my soul gets it right)
(Til we reach the highest light)
How long

Songwriters: SALIERS, EMILY ANN

Galileo lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group

      Task 2: Identify and explain three metaphors and three similis. 

Task 3: Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the verb. 

Task 4: Go to the National Gallery of Art for 17th century Italian paintings. Choose the painting that resembles a scene for Galileo's life. What painting did you choose and how does that painting describe life for Galileo in 17th century Italy? 

Task 5: Imagine you are in an Italian pub.  You are in a bar drinking with your friends discussing the forbidden secrets of Copernicus. Engage in a dialogue.

Describe the scene: The pubs smelt like                   

Galileo: "my teacher says that it is possible that we are not the center of the universe! He claims that we are just a speck of dust amongst  millions of stars! 

Orazio Grassi:  "Hush!, Orazio if anyone from church hears you they will cut your head off!" 

Galileo: 

Orazio Grassi: