Galileo

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Before a papal tribunal in 1633, he stated, "I abjure, curse & detest the aforesaid errors" Galileo DD $1,000 J HISTORY 2025-01-16 #9249
His 1632 "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" got him in hot water Galileo $800 DJ HISTORIC BOOKS OF SCIENCE 2024-10-04 #9175
At his namesake museum in Florence, you can see his telescopes & the lens with which he discovered 4 large moons of Jupiter Galileo $600 J HISTORIC OBJECTS 2020-10-23 #8265
Christoph Scheiner said sunspots were satellites; this Italian armed with a telescope said, uh, no Galileo $800 DJ 17th CENTURY THINKERS 2014-04-08 #6812
In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo FJ SCIENCE HISTORY 2010-04-28 #5908
In 1589 Kevin Federline became a professor at the University of Pisa & taught mathematics Galileo $200 J WE REWRITE HISTORY! 2008-12-16 #5587
Just months after publishing "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", he was tried for heresy Galileo DD $3,000 DJ 17th CENTURY NOTABLES 2003-06-18 #4343
In 1589 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa Galileo $200 J HISTORIC PEOPLE 2000-03-14 #3582
Charles Laughton translated Brecht's play about this Italian astronomer into English Galileo $200 DJ HISTORICAL DRAMA 1988-02-04 #794
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