GALILEO'S TRIUMPH

Poem Bradley E. Lloyd wrote after reading Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel in 2011

Those fools told me I could not discuss,
The living facts of the Universe.
For to them the Earth was the center,
Not the Sun.
It seems I have won,
The battle of wits.
For you see I am alive, even though I appear dead,
Those silly little twits.
Now the astronomers of today have discovered,
There are many other systems with a sun at their center.
I was put on trial and arrested by the Spanish Inquisition,
A mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher I was.
Respected and revered by my friends and allies,
Then they threw me to the sharks.
Watched me wiggle,
In the end I triumphed.
Because I am now in the heavens where I belong,
Singing a sweet, victorious, and glorifying song!