So, I know what you’re wondering. Who’s the old man with the beard in the above portrait? He was Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, inventor of the telescope, astronomer, lecturer, and author. In 1633 he was indicted, jailed, interrogated, prosecuted, convicted by a jury of ten Roman Catholic Cardinals and ordered into prison by the Pope. Galileo’s crime was that he wrote a five-hundred page book, in which he presented scientific evidence clearly demonstrating that the Earth was not at the center of the Universe. But the idea was blasphemy. Europe will witness another heresy trial in Amsterdam on January 20th....
