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Nobody expects the Italian inquisition

Nobody expects the Italian inquisition
© The Open University

Galileo got into deep trouble with the Vatican for publicising the proof, based on his observations of the movement of Jupiter’s moons, that not all heavenly motion is centred on the Earth.

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