Get the 307-piece Galileo Galilei set as a free gift with purchase on purchases of ... a desk, a rotating heliocentric model, experiments, a nameplate and more. It measures 3.5 inches (9 cm ...

The Catholic Church banned Galileo's 1632 book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, forced Galileo to recant his heliocentric views and condemned him to house arrest. He died in his ...

Galileo Galilei had argued in favor of the heliocentric model developed by Copernicus that shows the Earth going around the sun, ...