Galileo formally banned from teaching that the Earth orbits the sun 400 years ago today (Feb 26 1616)


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(Monday, February 26, 1616) — Astronomer Galileo Galilei met today with a Roman Inquisition official, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, who ordered him to abandon the “heretical” concept of heliocentrism, which held that the earth revolved around the sun, instead of the other way around.