Galileo’s Sentence Restated
NOV 01, 2001
DOI: 10.1063/1.1428453
In my letter in the August 2001 issue of Physics Today (page 74), I stated that Galileo was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church. I was mistaken. He was never excommunicated, but was summoned to Rome on suspicion of heresy, forced to abjure, and sentenced to life in prison; that sentence was later commuted to house arrest.
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Matthew Housley, mhousley@mailaps.org, Pleasant Grove, Utah, US .
© 2001 American Institute of Physics
