Looking back

Abstract

Modern science can reasonably be said to have come into being during the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England. While William Shakespeare was composing sonnets, in Italy Galileo Galilei was developing the idea that careful experiments in a laboratory could reveal universal truths about the way objects move through space. Later, hearing about the newly invented telescope, he made one for himself and with it made discoveries that astonished and thrilled all of Europe. Nevertheless, in 1633, Galileo was put on trial for his scientific teachings.

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