"I n 1992 Pope John Paul II issued a formal apology on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church for its persecution and trial 359 years earlier of Galileo Galilei for arguing, convincingly and scientifically, that the Earth went around the sun. Among the more than 10,000 volumes in the rare book collection at Linda Hall Library is the book published in 1632 that brought Galileo house arrest until his death in 1642: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems."

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