The Myth of Galileo's Proof and the Inspiration from Christian Scientists over the Last Centuries


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Without knowing it, during a typical day, we all encounter many of the most important natural scientists from history. Surprisingly, the Christian faith meant something personal to many of them, as illustrated by their own words in this talk. Among them is Galileo about whose personal faith we don’t know much. But a persistent myth is that he had proven that the Earth revolves around the sun. Galileo himself knew very well that he had not. Scientifically Tycho Brahe's geoheliocentric model was held to be the correct one long after Galileo had passed away. It is therefore impossible to comprehend the Galileo affair without understanding Brahe's model.

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Sverre Holm is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Oslo, where he has been a professor since 1995. He has mainly worked with medical ultrasound imaging and wave propagation and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (NTVA). He is on the panel for the popular science program Abel's Tower on national radio NRK P2, where he has appeared about once a semester for many years. He has written the book "The Imagined Conflict. On Science and God" (2025) which is a translation of the original published in Norway in 2021, and coauthored "Science with Overtones. 21 Scientists and Their Faith in God" (2025) in Norwegian.

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