Movie

This movie really didn't sit well with me at some parts. It painted a very different picture than what I read. First off, the whole telescope incident in the beginning really through me off. I knew he didn't invent the telescope, but the way the movie presented it he looked like a crook the way he took credit for it. i just didn't imagine Galileo doing something like that. However, the overall work seemed to be accurate enough. It just seemed to not go into the detail we are used to, and there were some inaccuracies, i.e. the daughter thing.

The one recurring part that confused me was the 3 choir kids. I just didn't get what was with them and why they were though. I know it was just part of the movie, but why 3 little kids singing. I don't know, it was just a really weird part of the movie.

Overall the whole thing seemed to work well, but many of the small or medium sized elements weren't so accurate. To us this matters because we have read a lot, but to others many would go unnoticed.

Rehabilitation.

I was a little surprised by what Sharratt had to say. There were a few things I didn't know, mainly concerned with Pope John Paul. It seems that Sharratt really likes Pope John Paul and most of what he did. However, the only part he didn't like was how "Pope John Paul's address eludes the crucial distinction between hypotheses as mere calculating devices and hypotheses as conjectures that could eventually be shown to be true." Other than that the, I would have to agree with Sharratt in saying that Pope John Paul was very good. Also, Sharratt seems to go so far as to say that he really is one of the few to realize what Galileo has done for the Church, and more people need to see that. Even though he wasn't a theologian, his contribution was great. I also like how Sharratt shared some information about the Galileo situation I didn't know about, like how the Inquistion didn't even look at his scientific case. That just amazed me.