Sept. 11, 1822: Church Admits It’s Not All About Us

Galileo Galilei, Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist, was condemned for heresy by the the Roman Inquisition in 1633. He spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest.Painting: Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797-1890)/Bettmann Corbis1822: The College of Cardinals finally caves in to the hard facts of science, saying that the “publication of works treating [...] continue reading latest news