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Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", and the "father of science". His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments.
Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism due to the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, and they concluded that it could only be supported as a possibility, not as an established fact. Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It was while Galileo was under house arrest that he wrote one of his finest works, Two New Sciences. Here he summarized the work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials.
Actors: Jerry G. Angelo (actor), Michael Haboush (actor), Maria Olsen (actress), Rhoda Pell (actress), Michael Q. Schmidt (actor), Art Roberts (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Domiziano Arcangeli (actor), Lunden De'Leon (actress), Tommy Kijas (actor), Luis Fernandez-Gil (actor), Lejla Hadzimuratovic (miscellaneous crew), Lejla Hadzimuratovic (actress), Mike Muscat (actor), Lonnie 'Lono' Woodley (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Michalis Tamboukas (actor), Adonis Vlisidis (actor), Panos Anestis (director), Panos Anestis (writer), Nikos Bournias (actor), Dimitris Petakos (actor), Dimitris Petakos (writer), Sofia Kotsikou (costume designer), Vassilis Papakonstantinou (producer), Nikos Papadopoulos (editor), Lida Arnellou (miscellaneous crew), Lida Arnellou (miscellaneous crew), Valia Lyratzi (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Galileo Galilei is one of the most renowned thinkers in the history of science and a highly emblematic figure of the 17th century. This was the era when modern science emerged. This documentary narrates the life of a man who turned his telescope towards the heavens and observed things that no one had seen before. His observations, experiments and mathematics paved a new method for the study of nature. However, the basic argument of this documentary is that Galileo succeeded not only because of his philosophical and mathematical achievements, but also because of his carefully chosen alliances. One of the defining characteristics of Florentine society throughout the centuries was a deeply-rooted system of patronage networks. Galileo benefited from these networks as he secured the patronage of Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscan, and constructed for himself a novel social and professional identity. As his fame and recognition grew, Galileo had intense confrontations with the philosophers in matters such as buoyancy, motion, free fall and some of his observations (the sun spots). The Aristotelian philosophers argued that all these were matters of philosophy, not mathematics. They never accepted Galileo as a natural philosopher because philosophers held a higher professional position than mathematicians. In the face of Galileo they saw a mathematician who tried to remove their philosophical status, exploiting the professional benefits arising from the title that Cosimo gave him. Through these confrontations and political pressure the Aristotelians forced the Catholic Church to judge the work of Galileo. The trial and conviction of Galileo was the outcome of exhausting social and political battles and not the result of an opposition between science and religion. The devout Catholic Galileo never wanted to replace the Bible and the Scriptures with a new science (after all, science did not exist at that time). However, Galileo was forced to kneel inside the church of Maria Sopra Minerva and repudiate the work and views of a lifetime. This documentary tells the story of a man who never retreated and had the persistence and courage to vindicate his intellectual identity.
Keywords: docudrama, galileo, historical-portraitActors: Sean G. Tarjoto (actor), Boomer Tibbs (actor), Paul Bright (actor), Rob Cristiano (producer), Peter Hodgins (actor), Victoria Negri (actress), Stian Hafstad (director), Matt Garafalo (actor), Dennison Ramalho (actor), Stian Hafstad (writer), Fernando Frias (actor), Lindsay Tolbert (producer), Robert Gambino (actor), Donavon Dietz (actor), Jeffrey Smith (actor),
Plot: Inside the head of a geeky teenage boy, a group of scientists lead by Albert Einstein, are trying to find the ultimate approach to charm the boy's dream girl. They do the calculations, he acts them out. But he soon discovers that mathematical formulas might not be the best way to win a girl's heart.
Keywords: seven-word-titleActors: Victor Deiß (actor), Arno Wyzniewski (actor), Barbara Dittus (actress), Carmen-Maja Antoni (actress), Werner Dissel (actor), Siegfried Weiß (actor), Franz Viehmann (actor), Jaecki Schwarz (actor), Michael Gerber (actor), Stefan Lisewski (actor), Holger Mahlich (actor), Günter Naumann (actor), Hans-Peter Reinicke (actor), Doris Thalmer (actress), Ekkehard Schall (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Charles Laughton (writer), Joseph Losey (writer), Colin Blakely (actor), Patrick Magee (actor), Clive Revill (actor), Bertolt Brecht (writer), John Savident (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Edward Fox (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Tom Conti (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Richard Hartley (composer), Hanns Eisler (composer),
Plot: This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him in conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest. However, Galileo's trials and theories inspired others like Newton and Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe. Some years ago, the Pope accepted that Earth does revolve around the Sun and issued a rare apology for what the Church had done to Galileo, i.e., the Catholic Church recanted!
Keywords: 17th-century, based-on-play, belief, boy, cardinal, catholic, catholic-church, catholicism, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptationActors: George Schaefer (director), Melvyn Douglas (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Graham Jarvis (actor), William Kerwin (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), George Voskovec (actor), David Wayne (actor), Kim Hunter (actress), George Schaefer (producer), Hurd Hatfield (actor), Thayer David (actor), Ralph Clanton (actor), Eric Berry (actor), Gaylord Cavallaro (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Hanns Eisler (composer), Bertolt Brecht (writer), Peter Lehmbrock (actor), Egon Monk (writer), Hartmut Reck (actor), Gyula Trebitsch (producer), Ernst Schröder (actor), Ulrich Matschoss (actor), Richard Lauffen (actor), Josef Dahmen (actor), Wolfgang Büttner (actor), Hans Hessling (actor), Hans Elwenspoek (actor), Egon Monk (director), Volker Brandt (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Peter Brocco (actor), Charles Laughton (actor), William Phipps (actor), Bertolt Brecht (writer), Charles Laughton (writer), Hanns Eisler (composer), Joseph Losey (director), Joseph Losey (miscellaneous crew), Hugo Haas (actor), Eda Reiss Merin (actress), Margarete Steffin (writer), Frances Heflin (actress), Lotte Goslar (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Berlau (director), Morton Wurtele (miscellaneous crew),
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How long's, so long, who can tell me
Where I've been wrong, very rightly
So long's, too long I'll be on my own again
How fair's farewell and fair to who?
No one can tell, to tell the truth
Still as it stands, I'm back on my own again, oh
You're all I know, no story
You're all I know, please don't worry
Don't want no, don't worry baby, oh don't cry no more
How fair's farewell and fair to who?
No one can tell, to tell the truth
Stare in the sands, I'm back on my own again
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No please don't go, oh you're breaking my heart again
You're all I know, no story
You're all I know, please don't worry
Don't want no, want no
Oh yeah, don't you want me
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Too late to find, no one is with me
Long gone I'm back on my own again
Whoa, please don't go
No please don't go, no please don't go