‘Heretical’ Galileo planetary work which horrified the Inquisition is star lot in Paris auction

Following the publication in 1632 of his Dialogo…, Galileo found himself hauled before the Inquisition and tried for his heretical views.

This was a work which offered both a defence of the Copernican, heliocentric view of the solar sys…

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