the life of Galileo

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English

 

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Neal R

 

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June 15, 2016

 

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University

 

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A new student brings a telescope from the Netherlands. Galileo improves it, but then sells it to the Venetian Republic as his own invention. Galileo uses the telescope to substantiate Copernicus' heliocentric model of our solar system, which is highly incompatible with both popular belief and church doctrine...
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His daughter's marriage to a well-off young man (who she is genuinely in love with) fails because of Galileo's recalcitrance to distance himself from his unorthodox teachings. Galileo is brought to the Vatican for questioning. Upon being threatened with torture, he recants his teachings. His students are shocked by his surrender in the face of pressure from the church authorities...
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