GALILEO before the Tribunal of the Inquisition on June 22, 1633.
His abjuration before the Inquisition on June 22, 1633. Galileo had been forced to renounce his scientific discoveries, particularly the Copernican theory of heliocentrism. The abjuration: to avoid prison, or worse, Galileo had to formally deny the motion of the Earth. This act, called an abjuration, implied the renunciation of his ideas. dimensions 140x100 frame 160x122