File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg

Portrait of Galileo Galilei in prison. Attributed to Murillo.

Galileo is depicted as holding a nail and gazing at diagrams he has scratched on the wall of his prison cell.

Underneath a diagram of the Earth orbiting the Sun (barely visible in this image), the words "E pur si muove" appear (not legible in this image).

Circa 1643, 1645 or 1646.

In the News

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  1613: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain Anarchimedes uses corrupt Gnomon algorithm configuration files to remotely measure the trans-quantum state of physicist and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei.

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  Virtualization experiments may cause Galileo pain, warns John Brunner.

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  The Joker imprisons, tortures famed physicist Galileo Galilei. Church authorities say they are "powerless to intervene".

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  The Dark Side of the Moon "kept my spirits up during the ordeal", Galileo heard to mutter while leaving the courtroom.

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  1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction) - one of the two scholars who refused to look through Galileo's telescope.
• Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)
• Physicist (nonfiction)

Attribution:

By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Scan by uploader of plate XVI in Memorials of Galileo (1564–1642), the Courier Press (London), 1929, by J.J. Fahie, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40199451

External links:

• Galileo Galilei @ Wikipedia