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"Eppur si muove"

Author: Leonardo F. Peklar

And yet it moves, Galileo Galilei quietly murmured when leaving the hearing in front of the inquisition which had found him guilty of heresy. The latter was connected with the treatise about the phenomenon of the tide with which Galilei had proved that the Earth moved and supported Copernicus' teachings.

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