October 29, 2002
Nova: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Just watched this episode. Pretty good, he had an interesting life. Too bad the BS he had to put up with in relation to the church still goes on today, 400 years later. I guess we can take solace in the fact that history will show who was right and who was wrong, as it has with Galileo.
In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, Galileo's Daughter, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist -- that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.
