Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... a Dominican in some way unknown secured a copy and sent it to the Inquisition at Rome. Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular ...

The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

Four hundred years ago this week, the Inquisition met in Rome to discuss Galileo’s support for the Copernican model of the cosmos, which placed the Sun at the center of the solar system.