ON THE OTHER SIDE OF GALILEO’S OCCHIALE… FACTS OR CHIMERAS?

Abstract

Galileo’s improvement of the telescope marks the dawn of the new science. The publication of Siderus Nuncios or Messenger of the Stars led to a radical renewal of astronomy, followed by a complex process of acceptance and validation which hastened the fall of the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic world view, imposing heliocentric theory over the entrenched geocentric theory