"And for more confirmation of Haver I will not 'seal, would' take the damn for real opinion of mobility 'of the earth, and set' the Sun, if I will be 'allowed, I would like Sicom, Habili', and time to be able do more 'dimostratione clear, I set about to do it, and when there' reasoning is .... "These words of Galileo Galilei, said in April 30th of 1633 before the tribunal of the Inquisition, by which the Pisan scientist and 'forced to distance himself from the Copernican theory to avoid serious penalties.
The proceedings of the trial, which ended June 22 of that 1633 conviction for heresy and the obligation dell'abiura are just one of the valuable evidence contained in the Galileo Galilei. The glory and the pain of a "divine man" (Mauro Pagliai Publisher, pp. 256, euro 38). The result of painstaking research by Monsignor Sergio Pagano, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives, an expert in religious history and deep knowledge of the life of Galileo, the work traces the most 'dramatic life of the great scientist, accompanied by numerous illustrations, color photographs and exclusive documents such as letters written to the authorities' Church and the minutes of the process.
In 1632 was published the famous "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", where Galileo compares the geocentric theory of Ptolemy, then embraced by the Church, with the heliocentric Copernican, considered heretical as openly hostile to the scriptures. Accused by Pope Urban VIII to embrace the ideas Copernicus, Galileo, who already 'has been questioned by the Inquisition in 1916, and' forced in 1933 to return to Rome and stand trial for heresy. Elderly and infirm, was imprisoned, threatened with torture and eventually forced to recant publicly to avoid the death sentence. The penalty will be 'life imprisonment, which will serve' at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence will spend 'his last years (he died' in 1642) in sickness and isolation.
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