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Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher                          

Selected Works:

The Little Balance - 1586
The Starry Messenger - 1610; in Latin, Sidereus Nuncius
Letters on Sunspots - 1613
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina - 1615; published in 1636
Discourse on the Tides - 1616; in Italian, Discorso del flusso e reflusso del mare
Discourse on the Comets - 1619; in Italian, Discorso Delle Comete
The Assayer - 1623; in Italian, Il Saggiatore
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - 1632; in Italian Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences - 1638; in Italian, Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze.                          

Mother Giulia Ammannati
Father Vincenzo Galilei, four of their six children survived infancy.                          

Inquisition Movements:

Historians distinguish four different manifestations of The Inquisition:

The Medieval Inquisition - Episcopal Inquisition - 1184 and the Papal Inquisition - 1230s
The Spanish Inquisition - 1478–1834
The Portuguese Inquisition - 1536–1821
The Roman Inquisition - 1542 – c. 1860.

Legal basis for inquisitorial activity came from Pope Innocent IV's papal bull Ad exstirpanda of 1252, which authorized and regulated the use of torture in investigating heresy.                          

The Roman Inquisition was a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See  - Sancta Sedes which is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome during the second half of the 16th century, responsible for prosecuting individuals accused of a wide array of crimes related to heresy, including sorcery, immorality, blasphemy, Judaizing and witchcraft, as well for censorship of printed literature.

Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.

He was ordered imprisoned; the sentence was later commuted to house arrest.

His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.

Galileo died under house arrest.

Also among the subjects of the Roman Inquisition were Francesco Patrizi, Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Girolamo Cardano, Cesare Cremonini. Of these, Bruno was executed, and Campanella was imprisoned for twenty-seven years. The miller Domenico Scandella was put to the stake on the orders of Pope Clement VIII in 1599 for his belief that God was created from chaos.