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Harvard?

Rather than reproduce the list of Galileo's adventures available in any textbook with even a pretense of historical perspective, I will mention one amusing claim that I heard somewhere:6.4 when Galileo got into trouble with the Church over his heretical views6.5 he was offered a faculty position at a new University in another country where the Roman Church was not all that popular - the school in question was Harvard.6.6



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