Galileo’s Scientific Revolution Against the Church The scientific revolution was not only a challenge to a government but was also a challenge to a deeply rooted religion. The Church, having been influenced by Greek philosophers, viewed the world as a creation by God, complete with lawfulness, regularity and beauty. In the seventeenth century Galileo Galilei peered into the heavens with the newly invented telescope that changed humanity’s view of itself, nature and God. …showed first 75 words of 1048 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1048 total…to attract the attention of generation after generation. Images of Galileo easily come into view with his struggle for intellectual freedom, of the unprotected individual against a powerful institution committed to its self-preservation. Works Cited Fantoli, Annibale. Galileo and the Church. Rome: The Vatican Observatory Publications, 1994. Shea, William R. Galileo’s Intellectual Revolution. New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc., 1977. Taylor, F. Sherwood. Galileo and the Freedom of Thought. London: C.A. Watts & Co., Limited, 1988.