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Sci·ence n. The systematic study or knowledge of the physical or material world . One might think that with all of the great scientific discoveries that happened in the 17th century, that they happened over night and that the discoveries seemed to have happened ....

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.... world by surprise. Science was diffused by public demonstrations, but not always with much success. Galileo on many occasions, assembled notable philosophers and tried to convince them of his discovery of the moons around Jupiter. These eminent practitioners were allowed to view the heavens through Galileo’s telescope. The telescope, being invented by Galileo, proved to be a wonderful tool to view land based objects and no one disagreed with that. But, when pointed at the sacred heavens, many of the notaries said it “failed” or “deceived” in the celestial realm. The thinking of the people at this time was justifiable, because the tele ....