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What is the purpose of Galileos letter to Christina? How did Galileo go about defending himself ?;To separate science from religion. among errors that may abound in these considerations of a subject remote from my profession, there is anything that may be serviceable to the holy Church in making a decision concerning the Copernican system, it may be taken and utilized as seems best to the superiors.(P183) To seek sanctuary under the House of Medici. At that time, Florence is under the control of the Medici.;How did Galileo go about defending himself?;Latter, Galileo says that he is a supporter of Copernicus who had assumed his laborious enterprise by the order of the supreme pontiffand at the same time he is a devout Catholic and supports the Vatican just like Copernicus. He did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood...(P183);Then, Galileo reminds the Church that its difficult to stop people from talking about Copernicus theories. If in order to banish the opinion in question from the world it were sufficient to stop the mouth of a single man,... then that would be very easily done. But things stand otherwise. To carry out such a decision it would be necessary not only to prohibit the book of Copernicus and the writings of other authors who follow the same opinion, but to ban the whole science of astronomy. Furthermore, it would be necessary to forbid men to look at the heavens.;Last, he points out that the holy Bible and the phenomena of nature proceed alike. And things in nature or in the heavens cannot be changed. And these two dont against each other. For the Bible is not chained in every expression to conditions as strict as those which govern all physical effects; nor is God any less excellently revealed in Natures actions than in the sacred statements of the Bible... (P185);Why is experiment so important to Newton? What is the relations