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Galileo's Recantation, Operation Barbarossa & a River on Fire | Jun 22–28
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From Galileo forced to recant before the Inquisition to the largest military invasion in history, this week's historical events span science, war, nature, and art across five centuries. Strap in for a brisk tour of the moments that shaped the world you're living in right now.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
On June twenty-second, sixteen thirty-three, in Rome, Italy, one of the greatest scientific minds of his age was brought to his knees — literally. Galileo Galilei, then sixty-nine years old and nearly blind, stood before the Holy Office and was compelled to formally recant his support for the heliocentric model — the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun, not the other way around.
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