Born in Italy almost 500 years ago, Galileo is most known for his astronomical pursuits, particularly inventing the first complete telescope and insisting that the Copernican system (that the planets move around the sun) was correct. Galileo went before the papal court in Rome several times, and maintained that the understanding of the Bible should be reconciled with the results of science, instead of science reconciling with peoples’ understanding of the Bible. Eventually, Galileo was ordered to desist his teachings and was temporarily imprisoned. He was allowed to return to his villa at Arcetri, where he remained under surveillance of the Inquisition until the day he died.

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