Galileo, The Genius Who Faced The Inquisition by Philip Steele

I get uneasy every time I think of the Galileo story. The Catholic Church forced him to recant his scientific findings that the planets revolved around the sun because it was against the teachings of the church (which dated back to Aristotle, who died in 322 B.C. and Ptolemy who died in 170 A.D.).
How can we truly move forward when there is always someone with an agenda or special interest distorting the facts?
These children and young adult books are great finds. They can be read in an hour, have beautiful illustrations and facts about the world.

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 and dies on January 8, 1642 at 77
Dialogue of the Two Principal Systems of the World was published in 1632
Galileo is found guilty of being a heretic and forced to reject the teachings of Copernicus
In 1992 Pope John Paul II closed the Church’s case against Galileo saying that mistakes had been made in the trial.