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Galileo: The Real Story, Against the Trial Record
David Stevens’s long-form account tests familiar stories about Galileo against surviving trial documents, correspondence, and dispatches.
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- Readers curious about Galileo and the trial record
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- A linked game uses eight nights of Galileo’s January 1610 observations to let readers work out what he saw.
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The account presents the 1616 warning as a dispute between two surviving documents: a file note recording a formal order and a certificate from Bellarmine. Its linked myth-checks address details including the torture story and the origin of “and yet it moves.” The page also points to Galileo’s own lunar drawings and a game based on eight nights of Jupiter observations.
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