Dan Hofstadter takes a fresh look at the man who developed the telescope in "The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition." The telescope led to Galileo's belief in the theories of Copernicus and eventually to his arrest and trial, which can be seen as the beginning of the conflict between science and religion.
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