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 ...

Putting truth on trial Armed with his discoveries, Galileo converted to Copernicanism, the thoughts of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who had proposed that the sun was the ...

In 1633, Galileo found himself on trial, accused of heresy for challenging the Church's geocentric dogma. The Inquisition demanded silence. He was forced to recant his findings under threat of ...