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THE HELP, Part 2 by Bill Lyne ufwsblog.org Galileo Galilei was a professor at the University of Padua in the sixteenth century. His fundamental contributions to mathematics, physics, and astronomy have been recognized by scientists across the continents and centuries, and celebrated in the smooth stylings of Bertolt Brecht, Freddie Mercury, and the Indigo Girls. In 1633, he was fired and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life for telling a politically and religiously unpopular truth about the su...