“Tell the truth and shame the devil,” the Inquisitors would say
But for some truth tellers, misery – even death – awaited.
In 1633, the Roman Inquisition charged the astronomer, philosopher and scientist Galileo of heresy for advocating Copernican theory; that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
Faced with execution by burning – the traditional punishment for heretics – Galileo recanted (muttering, as he was led out of court, according to the story, “But, still, it revolves”).
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