"Galileo Galilei (1564–1642 ... In 1633, Galileo faced the Inquisition and was found guilty of heresy and sentenced to house arrest by Pope Urban VIII for the remainder of his life, says ...

This is a show so full of spectacle and movement, noise and light, that one cannot help but be snatched and thrashed ...

WORLD less acquainted with the wonderful work of Galileo Galilei than with the persecution ... presents in full details the efforts of the Inquisition to suppress the most remarkable of modern ...

and most people picture the astronomer standing before scowling Inquisition judges, forced to recant his claim that the earth revolves about the sun. To secular scholars, Galileo Galilei (1564 ...

After the Inquisition forced Galileo to recant his views on heliocentrism ... as Italian science journalist Pietro Greco writes in Galileo Galilei, the Tuscan Artist, a “faithful companion during his ...