in 1543, the astronomer copernicus published his work on the revolutions of heavenly bodies.is revelation that the earth moved around the sun challenged people's perceptions of themselves. the title page of galileo's book on the solar system shows copernicus demonstrating to the revered ancient philosophers aristotle and ptolemy that their view had been wrong. the earth was one of many celestial bodies, all of which obeyed the same impartial laws. at the same time europeans learned of that revelation, the discovery the americas and the exploration of the far east revealed that europe wasn't the center of the world. inhis time of spiritual crisis provoked by the explosion of knowledge, artists sought new ways of seeing and understanding. the out-thrust left arm of the disciple startled and astonished its first viewers in 1600. it breaks into the space in which we stand. the naturalism of this painting of christ at emmaus by michelangelo merisi, known as caravaggio, was unprecedented. its intention is to convince us we're participants in this astonishing event, god's presence i

gal i have just a little pre galileo his name is your donald bruno who who had just learned about copernicus his work that maybe the sun is in the middle of the known universe instead of earth well if earth is just one of the planets and earth has life maybe other planets of life think about it once you realize that earth is one of many it opens up a whole world of questioning and he said if that's the case then and if all these lights in the night sky are signs just like our sun then maybe they all have planets then maybe the whole universe is teeming with life that got him into trouble because back then religious philosophies did not allow the universe to contain any kind of intelligence beyond what god would have court can here on earth and in astrophysics is the religious of course any i think religion is has been with us since we came out of the jungle the darling even a judge a mental god someone hovering over those if you look at the numbers i just tell you the numbers the numbers that scientists on average are less religious than the population ok but that number is not zero so then