GALILEO before the Tribunal of the Inquisition on June 22, 1633.
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His abjuration before the Inquisition on June 22, 1633. Galileo had been forced to renounce his scientific discoveries, particularly the Copernican theory of heliocentrism. The abjuration: to avoid prison, or worse, Galileo had to formally deny the motion of the Earth. This act, called an abjuration, implied the renunciation of his ideas. dimensions 140x100 frame 160x122
