Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, recanting his heresy

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He got into trouble with the church over his claim that the sun, and not the earth, is at the centre of the universe. Seen here recanting his so-called heresy, on 22 June 1633

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