Time For A Change?
All of the direct quotes for this blog are from "How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World." by Steven Johnson In the early 1600's, Galileo Galilei, made an observation in the Duomo of Pisa, when it shook with earth tremors. The long swinging incense burners and lamps that hung from the ceiling all swung in a unified fashion according to the length of the chains that suspended them. This observation would eventually lead Galileo to create the first pendulum clock. It would also lead him to a fuller understanding of the universe, and the fact that Earth revolves around the Sun, and not the other way around This assertion was believed to be heresy by the Catholic Church. In his heresy trial in 1633, the following was read to Galileo following his conviction: “We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo… have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, tha...