The Musketeers of the Cosmos II: History of great silence. Galileo Galilei

How the Inquisition wanted Galileo to recant and consider his model a simple mathematical hypothesis. Although his sentence was commuted and he was condemned to live under house arrest, Galileo remained faithful to his method until he died in 1642, the year Isaac Newton was born.

The Musketeers of the Cosmos II: History of great silence. Galileo Galilei
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