![]() The moment he was set at liberty, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said, Eppur si muove, that is, still it moves, meaning the earth. The event was first reported in English print in 1757 by Giuseppe Baretti in his book the The Italian Library: The earliest biography of Galileo, written by his disciple Vincenzo Viviani in 1655–1656, does not mention this phrase. There is no contemporary evidence that Galileo uttered this expression at his trial it would certainly have been highly imprudent for him to have done so. ![]() As such, the phrase is used today as a sort of pithy retort implying that "it doesn't matter what you believe these are the facts". In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite this recantation, the Church's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction or doctrine of men, the Earth does, in fact, move around the sun, and not vice versa. Since Galileo recanted, he was only put under house arrest until his death, nine years after the trial. Galileo's adversaries brought the charge of heresy, then punishable by death, before the Inquisition. ![]() " And yet it moves" ( Eppur si muove) is a phrase said to have been uttered before the Inquisition by the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant that the earth moves around the sun.Īt the time of Galileo's trial, the dominant view among theologians and philosophers was that the Earth is stationary, indeed the center of the universe.
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