Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
10.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
21849
Points per Word
0.000183
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.035714
Series
Famous Trials
Description
This book examines key issues in the trial of seventeenth-century astronomer Galileo, accused of heresy by the Inquisition for advocating the Copernican, or sun-centered, view of the universe. Also covered are the reasons the trial remains memorable.