Galileo Galilei Y Leonardo Boff

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23/08/2012

Adrian Albo Aguilar

Galileo Galilei and Leonardo Boff

Professor: Sarai Castro

Galileo Galilei and Leonardo Boff
Galileo Galilei: he was born in Italy in February 15 of 1564; he died January 8 of 1642. In his life Galileo was a well known Italian astronomer, philosopher, mathematically and physically. Galileo Galilei has many names as the father of the modernastronomy, the father of the science or the father of the modern physics. Galileo Galilei was a man of the Renaissance for many reasons like the year and that he was interest in almost all the science and arts. Some of his best achievements were the improvement of the telescope, some of the best observations and researches for the astronomy as the faces of the moon or the faces of Venus that theywere well seen with the 20 times improve he made to de telescope, another achievement hi have was the first law of movement.
Leonardo Boff: or what his real name is Genésio Darci Boff, he was born in Brazil in the years of 1938, now a days he is 74 years old and he still do his professions like been a theologian, philosopher, writer, teacher, ecologist, that some of his well known professions. Hehas very Christian and when he received his doctorate in a University of Munich he It joined the Order of the Minor Friars. Leonardo Boff most was well known as the founder of Theology of the Liberation. Leonardo Boff is a person that fights for the weak people, oppressed and underprivileged persons, it was mostly in the favor that the human rights need to be respected for all because issomething that everybody has; this kind of problems provoked that he was Silenced for one year and they did not leave it in his work as publisher and writer until it was ending the year. Leonardo Boff was a thinker that fights for the people.
10 similarities between Leonardo Boff and Galileo Galilei |
1. They both have Italian roots 2. They both in one moment of their life the religion was areally big influence to them 3. Both were the kind of persons that are free thinkers, for example that both always tried to said what they think and also tried to prove what they said 4. Both in a moments of her life’s, Galileo in the past and Leonardo in the present were professors in a school 5. Both in their lives were Scientifics maybe not all the same profession but both were Scientifics6. Both were really good writers, both made very good books 7. Both appreciated the arts like the literature, music and art 8. Both fight against the system in the way that maybe they do not what to accept all as it is, like Galileo have problems in the university in Pisa for not follow the rules correctly as well that Boff think like how the religion could manipulated some people 9. Bothwere kind of against the religion in the way they publish in their books some things that weren’t allowed and both suffered the punish of the religion like canceling the books or going to jail in some unjust judgment and for last being silenced for more than a year 10. Both were interest in the people not only in themselves |

10 differences between Leonardo Boff and Galileo Galilei |1. Both were born in different time line, because Boff is alive and Galileo has more than 400 years been death 2. Galileo Galilei spoke Italian and Leonardo Boff speaks Portuguese because he is from Brazil 3. Leonardo Boff was more involved in the religion because he also change his name for it 4. Galileo Galilei invented some relevant things and comparing to Boff is different because hemade more theories 5. They think other way, one likes better the mathematics and physic and the other likes better the philosophy and the theology 6. Galileo Galilei went to jail from the judgment he had and Boff only was silenced 1 year 7. Boff fight more for the people than what anything that Galileo Galilei made, in the cases that Boff express himself and what he thinks in his books 8....