Sobel discusses Galileo's Daughter
Ben White
Issue date: 11/4/09 Section: News
By Ben White
The 2009 Guarnaschelli lecture with Dava Sobel took place on Thursday October 29 in Bellarmine's Frazier Hall.
Sobel has been a science journalist for 30 years and been published through a variety of media outlets. Sobel's book Galileo's Daughter won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology, a 2000 Christopher award, and was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
The annual lecture was developed to bring leading arts and humanities speakers to the Louisville community.
The event, An Evening with Dava Sobel: Galileo, Bellarmine and the Struggle for the Soul of Science was based on one of her books Galileo's Daughter.
The event consisted of Sobel discussing her motivation for the book and the process she took in writing the book. Sobel first became interested in Galileo as a child because she said she was rebellious and could relate to Galileo. She wrote the book on 124 surviving letters written from Galileo's eldest daughter.
Throughout her lecture Sobel discussed the struggle between Galileo and the Catholic Church. She spoke about St. Robert Bellarmine and the ways he was directly involved in the controversy between Galileo's findings and the Catholic Church.
Galileo spent his entire life as a devout Catholic, unfortunately his scientific intellect eventually led to him being condemned by the Catholic Church. The issue between Galileo and the Catholic Church stemmed from his findings that the sun was the center of the universe and that the earth orbited around the sun it can be added somewhere in this paragraph
As the lecture wound down Sobel spoke about the fundamental rift between science and religion. At one point in her lecture she said, "The bible is a book about how to go to heaven, not how the heavens the go."
At the conclusion of her lecture Sobel wanted it to be clear, that though there is a rift between science and religion, the two are completely different disciplines and the rift between the two has been the driving force behind some of the greatest scientists of all-time. I.E. Galileo.
The 2009 Guarnaschelli lecture with Dava Sobel took place on Thursday October 29 in Bellarmine's Frazier Hall.
Sobel has been a science journalist for 30 years and been published through a variety of media outlets. Sobel's book Galileo's Daughter won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology, a 2000 Christopher award, and was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
The annual lecture was developed to bring leading arts and humanities speakers to the Louisville community.
The event, An Evening with Dava Sobel: Galileo, Bellarmine and the Struggle for the Soul of Science was based on one of her books Galileo's Daughter.
The event consisted of Sobel discussing her motivation for the book and the process she took in writing the book. Sobel first became interested in Galileo as a child because she said she was rebellious and could relate to Galileo. She wrote the book on 124 surviving letters written from Galileo's eldest daughter.
Throughout her lecture Sobel discussed the struggle between Galileo and the Catholic Church. She spoke about St. Robert Bellarmine and the ways he was directly involved in the controversy between Galileo's findings and the Catholic Church.
Galileo spent his entire life as a devout Catholic, unfortunately his scientific intellect eventually led to him being condemned by the Catholic Church. The issue between Galileo and the Catholic Church stemmed from his findings that the sun was the center of the universe and that the earth orbited around the sun it can be added somewhere in this paragraph
As the lecture wound down Sobel spoke about the fundamental rift between science and religion. At one point in her lecture she said, "The bible is a book about how to go to heaven, not how the heavens the go."
At the conclusion of her lecture Sobel wanted it to be clear, that though there is a rift between science and religion, the two are completely different disciplines and the rift between the two has been the driving force behind some of the greatest scientists of all-time. I.E. Galileo.
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