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Galileo   Read Transcript

11/05/2008
In 1632 the greatest scientist of his time, Galileo Galilei, was forced by the Roman Catholic church to recant his doctrine that the Earth revolved around the Sun. But according to Galileo's biographer, Michael White, there was much more at stake than astronomical theories.