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First Letter to Piero Dini

Italy · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Galileo Galilei16 February 1615

Science / Astronomy

Galileo writes to Piero Dini defending Copernican astronomy and arguing that it need not conflict with Scripture.

Names involved

Galileo Galilei

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