dec 26, 1612 - Rome and Galileo spend three long years in conflict. Because Galileo choose to write his 1613 letters in Italian, they enjoyed a larger audience than the religious and scientific communities. The Aristotelian Scholars saw the attacks on Aristotelian Philosophy to be attacks upon themselves. The Aristotelian Scholars united against Galileo. The Church, swayed by the Aristotelian Scholars declared that Galileo was contradicting scripture,
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