The Ascent of Man (Episode 6): The Starry Messenger

Episode 6, “The Starry Messenger,” traces how astronomy became the engine of the scientific revolution, following Galileo as he turns his telescope to the skies and discovers moons around Jupiter and mountains on the Moon—evidence that shatters the old, perfectly ordered Ptolemaic cosmos. Bronowski uses Galileo’s book Sidereus Nuncius and his trial before the Inquisition to explore the clash between observation and dogma, and to show how the defense of free inquiry in “northern” Europe created the social conditions in which modern science, and a new picture of the universe, could flourish.

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