Galileo forced to recant his ideas before the Inquisition (“…and yet it moves…”). The sentence of the Holy Office tribunal reads: “You, Galileo […] have made yourself […] vehemently suspected of heresy, that is, of having held and believed a false doctrine contrary to the Holy Scriptures, that the Sun is the center of the Earth and does not move from East to West, and that the Earth moves and is not the center of the world…”



