# Galileo Galilei ## The offices he actually held Galileo is a Padua professor who became a Medici court philosopher and then a condemned author. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei and SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/ are independent. IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/galileo/ is a third life. Museo Galileo at https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/itinerary/GalileoGalilei.html is later heritage, not 1609. Gutenberg Sidereus at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46036 and Two New Sciences at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37729 are later English. The first fact about his power is a spyglass plus a book. The second is a court title. The third is a 1633 abjuration. ## What went wrong 1616, 1633, house arrest, Index, disputed precept. Eppur si muove is colour. 1992 is not 1633. ## What improved Telescope, Sidereus, Dialogue, Two New Sciences from Leiden, chairs, compass, Lincei. Related people: Cosimo II, Bellarmine, Urban VIII, Castelli, Maria Celeste, Cesi, Scheiner, Viviani, Kepler as independent sky-neighbour, Newton as later mechanics neighbour. Related Articles: this poll host, Newton's Principia-Mint article, [Bruno](/people/giordano-bruno)'s trial article, [Pascal](/people/blaise-pascal)'s calculator article. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. ## Dated facts - Galileo dies at Arcetri on 8 January 1642 still under constraint. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-death-1642. Sources: https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/itinerary/GalileoGalilei.html, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - 1641: Viviani becomes the late household pupil-heir of Galileo's paper file. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-viviani-heir. Sources: https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/itinerary/GalileoGalilei.html, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - Two New Sciences is published at Leiden in 1638 as a dated public mechanics book from arrest. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-two-new-1638. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37729, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - Galileo loses remaining sight around 1637 as a dated health file during arrest. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-blindness-1637. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - 1634: The Dialogue is placed on the Index as a dated book-ban after the trial. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-index-dialogue. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - 1633: Manuscript copies of the Dialogue circulate after the ban as a dated opacity-and-access fight. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-copy-network. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/, https://www.cambridge.org/core/. - 1633: Maria Celeste's convent letters support Galileo in arrest as a dated household-care file. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-maria-celeste. Sources: https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/itinerary/GalileoGalilei.html, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - Galileo is confined under house arrest from 1633 as a dated movement constraint. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-house-arrest. Sources: https://iep.utm.edu/galileo/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - Galileo is tried and abjures in 1633 as a dated Holy Office speech-and-person constraint. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-trial-1633. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - The 1616 special injunction file is used in 1632–33 as a dated documentary opacity-and-justice instrument. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-injunction-file. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - 1632: Urban VIII turns against the Dialogue as a dated patronage rupture. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-urban-turn. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published in 1632 as a dated public Copernican book. https://factrail.ai/facts/gal-dialogue-1632. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1422, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/galileo-galilei