Galileo

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• 2/28/2021
  

  A Ghost of Galileo in the English Civil War

  by John Heilbron

  An obscure English painting containing an image of Galileo's "Dialogues" launches a deep consideration of the political and intellectual stakes of free inquiry during the English Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  9-25-18
  

  Newly Discovered Letter Catches Galileo in a 400-Year-Old Lie

  Fearing repercussions of his groundbreaking scientific claims, which flew in the face of church doctrine, the famed astronomer fibbed.