Recantation of Galileo (June 22, 1633) Concluding portion of Galileos Recantation (or Abjuration) I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, arraigned personally before this tribunal, and kneeling before you, Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals, Inquisitors-General against heret

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Galileo Galilei February January was an Italian astronomer , physicist , engineer , philosopher , and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He has been called the father of observational astronomy , the father of modern physics , and the father of science . His c