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Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition

Close up of Galileo's letter

The original letter in which Galileo argued against the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church has been rediscovered in London. Credit: The Royal Society

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Nature 561, 441-442 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06769-4

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