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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/long-lost-letter-galileo-reveals-new-details-battle-church/
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[FONT="]In the letter’s seven pages, Galileo writes to his friend Benedetto Castelli, a mathematician at the University of Pisa, on Dec. 21, 1613, arguing that science should be free from the constraints of theology. He signs the letter “G.G.”
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[/FONT][FONT="]In its article, Nature reports that other copies of the letter had existed, but without the original, historians had no way to verify if the letters had been transmitted faithfully. It explains:
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[FONT="]In the letter’s seven pages, Galileo writes to his friend Benedetto Castelli, a mathematician at the University of Pisa, on Dec. 21, 1613, arguing that science should be free from the constraints of theology. He signs the letter “G.G.”
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[/FONT][FONT="]In its article, Nature reports that other copies of the letter had existed, but without the original, historians had no way to verify if the letters had been transmitted faithfully. It explains:
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Many copies of the letter were made, and two differing versions exist — one that was sent to the Inquisition in Rome and another with less inflammatory language. But because the original letter was assumed to be lost, it wasn’t clear whether incensed clergymen had doctored the letter to strengthen their case for heresy — something Galileo complained about to friends — or whether Galileo wrote the strong version, then decided to soften his own words.
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