Galileo’s condemnation by the Inquisition for having defended the hypothesis that ‘the Earth moves and is not the centre of the world’ was not, as subsequent myth would have it, due to a reluctance on the part of the Catholic Church to pay attention to the opinion of eminent astronomers, but the precise opposite. (De Agostini Picture Library/U. Marsani/Bridgeman Images)


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