[50:27]The vote was 11 to nothing. The hypothesis that the earth moved was foolish and absurd.
[50:38]The belief that the sun was the center of the world was a matter of formal heresy.
[53:08]Cardinal Bellarmine had countenanced burning men alive, but he was ethereal and unworldly. Even the ruling families of Italy considered the cardinal a bit too saintly. For Galileo, counting on the influence of his Medici patrons, the cardinal's incorruptible piety was not good news. But Galileo never even had a chance to persuade Bellarmine. Three days before his planned meeting with the cardinal, the Holy Office of the Inquisition met at the Collegio Romano to vote on the theories of Copernicus.
