Here Comes the Sun: The Heretical Heliocentrism of Galileo Galilei (Picture Essay of the Day)

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Here Comes the Sun: The Heretical Heliocentrism of Galileo Galilei (Picture Essay of the Day)

<img
src="You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login" alt="Galileo Galilei,  oil painting by Justus Sustermans, c. 1637; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. SCALA/Art Resource, New York" width="253" height="300" align="left" />History may have vindicated himâ€"and then someâ€"for having had the temerity to advocate the Copernican heliocentric cosmological model, but the star that got him in so much trouble will most likely begin doing laps around the Moon before a completely unequivocal acknowledgment of that comes out of the Vatican. (Pope John Paul II memorably characterized the Italian astronomer's persecution by the Catholic Church as a result of "tragic mutual incomprehension.")

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