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Oh, wow. Hello, you're all listening to a special episode of the Science of Everything podcast, Galileo and the Science Deniers.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in this episode, we're going to do something a little bit different to usual.

I'm going to be interviewing Mario Livio, who's the author of the book Galileo and Science Digniars.

This is a book about the life and achievements of Galileo, Galilei, who, among other things, was the first scientist pointed telescope at the sky and made a number of observations that undermined existing understandings of the nature of the cosmos and provided, ultimately provided evidence in favor of the heliocentric

theory, which is that the sun is at the center of the solar system and not the prevailing

geocentric theory, which was that the earth was at the center of the soul system and the

sun and all the planets orbited around. This got Galileo into trouble with the authorities

at the time and led to a famous trial in which

Galileo was ultimately convicted and forced to recant his teachings that the sun was at the center of the solar

system. So this has been a controversial episode in the history of science, and I'm sure you've all

heard about it. So this book examines the life and times of Galileo and his scientific

contributions and some of the details behind what led him to that episode, which is called the

Galileo Affair. So this is a recent book, which I was privileged to be able to have a review

copy of. The book is now available online. You can get it from Amazon or other online retailers.

It is available both in hardcover and also in Kindle form.

So check that out if you're interested.

Mario is an astrophysicist.

He worked for 24 years at the Space Telescope Science Institute,

which is the organization that operates the

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