On a cold January day in 1642, Galileo Galilei took his last breath ... heresy for challenging the Church's geocentric dogma. The Inquisition demanded silence. He was forced to recant his findings ...

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 ...

Members of STEMM faculty urge the Penn administration to stand firm to uphold the principles upon which Penn was founded.