2. How Galileo Used the Telescope to Refute Aristotle and Ptolemy

This episode is about how Galileo used the then-recent invention of the telescope to refute ancient and long-standing views about the cosmos. In the process, he got in trouble with the Vatican.

Host: Doug Campbell, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College.

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