{"id":999,"date":"2025-03-27T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:50:36","slug":"background-2-1611-padua-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/27\/background-2-1611-padua-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Background 2 – 1611 – Padua\/Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[This is written for my daughter Trinity, and my mother Katrina]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThey don\u2019t like it! They don\u2019t like the dancing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCalm down Galileo. Focus on what is important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t be silent Giovanni. They won\u2019t make me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGalileo, come back to earth. Now tell me. Are your bills paid?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMostly. I have a teaching job from the University where I teach the sons of the Councillors and  merchants how to calculate how far a projectile will fly from a catapult. Good for leading military jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd your family Galileo?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh, not so great. I can\u2019t afford the dowry for my daughter. She will not marry well. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHave you got a plan for that Galileo?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh I don\u2019t know. I suppose I\u2019ll have to put her into a convent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can do better than that Galileo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know, but it\u2019s the gravity of the situation Giovanni. Gravity, you see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m afraid I\u2019ve missed you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we shoot a projectile from a catapult, and it flies back to earth,  it is the same thing that makes the moon appear in the night sky. Gravity!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat has that got to do with anything Galileo?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe dance of the moons Giovanni.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe moons? There is only one moon!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh rubbish! Even the Ancient Romans could see that Mars had two moons. And I can see the moons of Jupiter as well!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat have moons of Jupiter got to do with anything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is the dance Giovanni! It is an orbital dance. The main dancer is the sun. Then Mars and Jupiter and our Earth dance around the sun, then the moons dance around the planets. A glorious orbital dance!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShhh! Quiet Galileo. You can\u2019t say such things! You\u2019ll get into more trouble!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh pooh! Whoever heard of a church disapproving of dancing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a new age Giovanni! Just like Leonardo\u2019s Vetruvian man. Of art and science going hand in hand!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI beg you Galileo. Play the game. Pay the bills. Teach the students. Get your daughter married off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey want us not to freely reason Giovanni. They want to control what we say!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t care what you think and say Galileo, as long as you don\u2019t undermine them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can measure it Giovanni. We can see it in the telescopes. But they want us to say the sun and planets dance around the Earth!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is written for my daughter Trinity, and my mother Katrina] \u201cThey don\u2019t like it! They don\u2019t like the dancing!\u201d \u201cCalm down Galileo. Focus on what is important.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t be silent Giovanni. They won\u2019t make me!\u201d \u201cGalileo, come back … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliangamble.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}