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Galileo and Why He was Really Convicted of Heresy

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, →→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Gruesome Tale of Lady Bluebeard https://youtu.be/gxE5jtUaJL4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Miss Unsinkable https://youtu.be/8-798XH2RPE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: On October 31, 1992, the Roman Catholic Church admitted it had been wrong to condemn Galileo Galilei for promoting the Copernican astronomical theory. After a 13 year investigation into the persecution of Galileo that led to his official condemnation in 1633, Pope John Paul II rectified a wrong that forced the Italian astronomer and physicist to live the last years of his life in exile, and worse yet, to recant his proven discoveries to save his hide. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/day-history-october-31st/ Sources: http://www.rbsp.info/rbs/H399/GalileoAffair.html http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/world/after-350-years-vatican-says-galileo-was-right-it-moves.html http://www.metanexus.net/archive/conference2004/pdf/chandrankunnel.pdf http://galileo.rice.edu/bio/narrative_6.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_New_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chief_World_Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VIII Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Extraordinary_General_Assembly_of_the_Synod_of_Bishops#/media/File:JohannesPaulusSimonis1985.2_(cropped).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galileo_Galilei_(1564-1642)._Oil_painting_by_an_Italian_pain_Wellcome_V0023487.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Paul_II_Brazil_1997_3.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

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  • Originally Aired January 29, 2018
  • Runtime 5 minutes
  • Production Code _d9OkDLd-iw
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