The painting would seem to show that some variant of the " Eppur si muove" anecdote was in circulation immediately after his death, when many who had known him were still alive to attest to it, and that it had been circulating for over a century before it was published. The signature is unclear but van Belle attributed it to the seventeenth century Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. This painting is dated 1643 or 1645 (the last digit is partially obscured), within a year or two of Galileo's death. In 1911, the words " E pur si muove" were found on a painting which had just been acquired by an art collector, Jules van Belle, of Roeselare, Belgium. The book became widely published in Querelles Littéraires in 1761.
The moment he was set at liberty, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said, Eppur si muove, that is, still it moves, meaning the Earth.
The event was first reported in English print in 1757 by Giuseppe Baretti in his book The Italian Library: : 357 Some authors say it would have been imprudent for Galileo to have said such a thing before the Inquisition. The earliest biography of Galileo, written by his disciple Vincenzo Viviani in 1655–1656, does not mention this phrase, and records of his trial do not cite it. This other home was also his own, the Villa Il Gioiello, in Arcetri. In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite his recantation, the Church's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction or doctrine of men, the Earth does, in fact, move ( around the Sun, and not vice versa).Īccording to Stephen Hawking, some historians believe this episode might have happened upon Galileo's transfer from house arrest under the watch of Archbishop Ascanio Piccolomini to "another home, in the hills above Florence". " And yet it moves" or "Although it does move" ( Italian: E pur si muove or Eppur si muove ) is a phrase attributed to the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun, rather than the converse. Photograph of a painting, which one of its former owners had attributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, depicting Galileo gazing at the wall of a prison cell on which the words " E pur si muove" appear (not fully legible in this image).
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