With apologies to Galileo Galilei and Bryan Adams. This is what comes of me reading up on the history of astronomy, and having a job that leaves a lot of room for creative thinking.
I took my two curved lenses
And placed them in a hollow tube
I saw the moons of Jupiter
It was the summer of 1609
I was the one to discover
The mountains on the moon
And when I saw the Sun had dark spots
I knew that things would change real soon
Together with Copernicus’
And Kepler’s clever calculations
We built on Tycho Brahe’s work
Now at last we had the observations
To tear the geocentric world-view down
I got in trouble with the Catholic church
They made me swear to God I had been wrong
I had to claim the Earth was at the centre
Although the proof against was strong
For all the things I could have achieved
They locked me in my house forever
But secretly I still believed
That the Earth revolved around the Sun
Together with Copernicus’
And Kepler’s clever calculations
We built on Tycho Brahe’s work
Now at last we had the observations
To tear the geocentric world-view down
Oh, yeah
Back in the summer of 1609
Scientific footnote: 1609 was the year when Galilei first used a telescope for astronomical observations. The change into a common acceptance of the heliocentric world-view took several decades.
I’d be delighted to no end if someone with a guitar and a singing voice would care to record this masterpiece!
Love and bursts of creativity,
Winterdragon
