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Classic EssaysRevilo P. Oliver

by Revilo P. Oliver AN ARTICLE in a magazine at which I glanced the other day repeated the trite and hackneyed denunciation of the Inquisitors in Rome, who forced Galileo (pictured) to recant his belief in Copernican astronomy and thus gave him an opportunity, if tradition is to be trusted, to mutter…
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