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For example, in 1633, the Vatican ordered Galileo to deny the evidence of his own eyes, as assisted by the new telescope he had designed, and stop teaching that God’s earth was only one of many planets in orbit around the sun.
The apology shows what a sensitive person you are, while you needn't alter your behavior at all, unless your slaves are doing something unkind to Galileo or that gimpy dog of his.
Galileo also disproved the principle that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, by dropping an apple and a watermelon off the top of a tower.
Eventually Galileo did sign a decree saying that the Earth sat at the center of the universe, while muttering, "Eppur si moeve" ("But it still moves") under his breath.
Galileo, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, and composer Rossini are all buried there.