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Galileo Galilei’ Long-Lost Letter Reveals His Attempt To Fool The Inquisition And Make Science Independent From Religion

AncientPages.com | September 22, 2018

AncientPages.com - The seven-page letter - long believed lost - was written by Galileo Galilei to a friend on 21 December 1613 and signed “G.G.” This important historical document

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On This Day In History: Galilei Galileo Demonstrates His First Telescope – August 25, 1609

AncientPages.com | August 25, 2016

AncientPages.com - On 25 August 1609, precisely 410 years ago today, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new invention, a telescope, an important instrument