The Condemnation and Abjuration of Galileo Galilei describe chronologically the events referred to in
“Condemnation and Abjuration of Galileo Galilei describe chronologically the events referred to in “The Condemnation and Abjuration of Galileo Galilei” and explain Galileo’s contributions to the discrediting of the medieval synthesis and the development of the scientific world view. Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the Sun is the center of the world and immovable and that the Earth moves, and also with a diurnal motion; for having disciples to whom you taught the same doctrine; for holding correspondence with certain mathematicians of Germany concerning the same; for having printed certain letters, entitled “On the Sunspots,” wherein you developed the same doctrine as true;
