Chronology of Galileo Trial
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 Trial of Galileo Galilei
 

 1633
 
Scriptural References & Assessment
Galileo's
Dialogue Concerning Two World Systems
1616 
Admonition
Galileo's 1633 Depositions
  
Galileo facing the Roman Inquistion by Cristiano Banti (1857).
Galileo's Defense 
Papal Condemnation
Galileo's Recantation
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Letters 
The Trial of Galileo
by Douglas Linder (c) 2002 
"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope?  What shall we make of this?  Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"
--Letter from Galileo Galilei to Johannes Kepler

In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei, two worlds come into cosmic conflict.  Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of Scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church.  The result is a tragedy that marks both the end of Galileo's liberty and the end of the Italian Renaissance.... [CONTINUED]
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