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Example sentences for: galileo

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Bruno's crime, like Galileo's, was to undermine the uniqueness of our planet, and by doing so, to threaten the intellectual security of the religious dictatorships of his time.
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.
However, Gottlob's figgin' work showed that this argument was invalid, since Leibniz worked in the morning, Newton worked in the evening, and it was really Galileo that discovered the calculus while looking at Jupiter, not Venus, through his telescope.
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.
•1633Trial of Galileo