Document of the proceeding of the trial of Galileo Galilei. (17th century)(Extrait du proc鑣 de Galil閑)Excerpt: Galileo Galilei's signature from the protocol of the proceedings with the Catholic Inquisition from the year 1633 against his book 'Dialogue on the two world systems'. Galilei stayed firm in his convictions: just before leaving the courtroom; he is said to have murmured his famous sentence: Eppur si muove! ('And yet it moves!'). After five months; in December 1633; he was allowed to return to his Villa Gioiella in Arcetri; but he remained there under house arrest; coupled with a ban on any form of teaching.The Galileo affair was a sequence of events; beginning around 1610 culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism.-The Vatican Secret Archives (Archives secretes du Vatican - Archivio Segreto Vaticano) is the central repository in the Vatican City for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. The archives also contain the state papers; correspondence; papal account books and many other documents which the church has accumulated over the centuries. More than 1000 years of history on 85 km of shelving. The papal archives has served the Holy See for 400 years and is one of the most important and renowned research centres in the world. Ii is a treasure trove of peerless precious documents: millions of papers and parchments that can be accessed by scholars of all nationalities and all faiths.- Vatican Secret Archives (1999)