Weatherday: Galileo, Galileo, cancel Copernicus!

Altar stone at Clashganny Lock (2017).

A dull morning with isolated patches of drizzle will clear to a drier afternoon with sunny spells.

Warm in the sunshine with temperatures up to 20deg in a very light variable breeze.

On this day in 1633, Galileo was forced by the Inquisition to recant his support for the Copernican system theory, that the sun was the centre of the of the solar system.

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