GALILEO -- Starry Messenger | ||||||||
1 | When I Was a Boy | 8 | Target | |||||
An old Galileo -- blind, ailing and under house arrest -- recalls his beginnings and his three remaining sources of solace: his work, his children and his music. | The acceptance and promotion of Copernican cosmology makes many enemies for a man largely incapable of backing down | Music & Lyrics by Hannes
Kvaran except music by/with Ragnar Kvaran to songs 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 |
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2 | A Wrangler | 9 | The Letter To Christina | |||||
He secures his first teaching post at the University of Pisa, where he had been a student. His colleagues, once his teachers, are unimpressed. | Galileo uses a letter to the archduchess Christina to explain his views on the proper domains of religion and science. | |||||||
3 | Lecture | 10 | Save the Appearance | |||||
Upon losing his first job, Galileo secures a second at the University of Padua in the Republic of Venice, where he studies and presents the laws of motion. | Cardinal Belarmine presents the church's position: teach the heliocentric view as a computational device, and not as the truth, and we will have no problem. | |||||||
4 | Stars Out Tonight | 11 | Something Must Be Done | |||||
In Venice, Galileo invents his own telescope and turns it to the skies. | Aristotelian philosophers, seeing the new book, "A Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems," an attack on their domain, convince Pope Urban that the book is dangerous. | |||||||
5 | The Brightest Star | 12 | Still It Moves | |||||
His book "Starry Messenger," detailing his celestial observations makes Galileo famous. In Rome he is inducted into the Society of the Lynxes, a group of pro-science radicals who hail him as their torch-bearer. | Forced to publicly recant his beliefs, Galileo swings from despair to triumph. | |||||||
6 | Passion | 13 | When I Was A Boy | |||||
They all recognize that promoting science creates serious risks. | A summation of a life. | |||||||
7 | Days | LIVE SHOW | ||||||
Accepting a new position as court philosopher to the Medici family back in Florence means leaving in Venice his common-law wife, Marina, and their three children. | A film of Galileo presented at
the Higley Center for the Arts, hosted bu Bob Zucker. My part of the show starts at about 12:30 |
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