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This was a much stronger prohibition than Galileo could recollect.
Without a defense of any kind, Galileo took his only reasonable option and on June 22, 1633, he recited the
required abjuration on his knees:
Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement
suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and
detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy and sect
contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or
assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.
The trial at an end, the abjuration made public, the broken Galileo spent his remaining eight years under
house arrest at his villa outside Florence. It was at this time that he wrote perhaps his finest book, th
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