Antonio Sperrigatozia had read the works of Galileo Galilei, especially those on observational astronomy. Antonio built his own telescope and began to make observations, verifying Galileo’s theory that the Earth wasn’t the centre of the solar system, let alone the universe.
However, Antonio didn’t have the protections Galileo had to keep him safe from the Church’s inquisition: Galileo got house arrest while Antonio got the rack.
Over the course of a week, Antonio was “encouraged” to deny his findings. But all they ever got was a partial recantation: “I have not directly observed it.”
Antonio died, his scientific truth uncompromised.
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