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Ludovico pleads unsuccessfully with Galileo

The telescope is brought in and set up as Ludovico prepares to leave. He makes a final effort to persuade Galileo to stop, using the doomed argument that scientific work that undermines the teaching of the Church will undermine his and his family’s authority over the peasants that work their estates.

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