The Idea of God as a Mistery in the Genesis of Galileo Galilei's Scientific Method

Abstract

The historical and philosophical studies have evidenced the origin of modern science from the new conceptions of the physical world of Galileo Galilei found to be contrary to Aristotelian physics. The objective of this work is to identify how the idea of God as Mystery and Christian worldview, from which derives from the first, have contributed so relevant in the new conception of physical science to Galileo and facilitated it to establish definitively the method of natural science. To make this route, will support the texts of Stillman Drake (Galileo) and Eugenio Garin (Science and civic life in the Italian Renaissance), which will be compared with texts by Paolo Musso (La Scienza e l”™notion di ragione) and Luigi Giussani (The religious consciousness in modern man) to explain the cultural context of Galileo and the rise of modern science.