The Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei to give up the theory that the Earth moved around the sun. For years the Roman inquisition was persecuted by Italian mathematicians, physicists and astronomers. Dialogues banned him from the book and he was imprisoned for it. At the age of 69, he said that the Earth moved around the sun, and it is a source of debate if the famous “Eppur if muove”, a threat of torture, said there.