{"id":47,"date":"2019-10-24T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:47:33","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/10\/galileo_400-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for Galileo: 400 Years exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/10\/galileo_400-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/10\/galileo_400-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/10\/galileo_400-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This exhibition commemorates the 1616 edict of the Catholic Church rejecting the notion that the sun is the center of the universe and that the earth is a planet orbiting the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the time of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (b.384 &#8211; d.322 B.C.), Europeans accepted geocentrism (the belief that the earth is the center of the universe). In 150 A. D., Greco-Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy proposed that the stars were set into a celestial sphere, which rotated around the earth. The movement of the stars and planets around the earth was believed to explain their rising and setting. The \u201cPtolemaic system\u201d was widely accepted for over 1500 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564 \u2013 1642) was not the first person to suggest that the earth orbited the sun. The Polish astronomer Copernicus had suggested a heliocentric (sun-centered) universe in the 1500s. Also, Galileo was not the inventor of the telescope. The German- Dutch lens maker Hans Lipperchey received the first patent for a \u201cspyglass\u201d in 1608. However, a few months later Galileo improvised on Lipperchy\u2019s design and created a much more powerful instrument, which he used to observe things that Copernicus had not been able to see, such as the moon\u2019s crators, sunspots and the phases of the planet Venus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galileo\u2019s observations suggested to him that Copernicus had been correct in suggesting that the earth orbits the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by Curtis Small, Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This exhibition commemorates the 1616 edict of the Catholic Church rejecting the notion that the sun is the center of the universe and that the earth is a planet orbiting the sun. From the time of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (b.384 &#8211; d.322 B.C.), Europeans accepted geocentrism (the belief that the earth is the center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/galileo-400-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}