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Galilean Nights: Spontaneous Stargazers

By Matthew Reddin. Published Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Today, it seems a horrifying act of censorship. A gifted scientist takes his theories about the world to the authorities of the time, expecting change and enlightenment. Instead, he is met with charges of heresy and publicly ridiculed. Eventually, he is sentenced to house arrest and forced to live out his remaining days as a [...]

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