Last name: Guerra. This unusual and interesting surname is of Old French pre 9th century origins. Recorded in many spellings including Guerre, Guierre, Laguerre (French), Guerra, Guerrero, (Spanish), Guerreiro (Portugese), Guerri (Italian), Guerriero (Sicillian), and Warr or Warre (English), the name derives from the word 'guerre' meaning 'war'.
Instead, Galileo disproved the Ptolemaic theory, sanctioned for centuries by the Church, which held the Earth to be the central and principal object in the universe, about which all celestial objects orbited.
Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition by Cristiano Banti, 1857. 1 Galileo was sent to a Jesuit monastery to study medicine. But after four years he announced heâd found his calling: to be a monk. His father withdrew himâbut not before Galileo joined the order, making him a defrocked priest for life. 2 Nicolaus Copernicus never wrote down his theories for fear it would jeopardize his day job working for the Catholic Church.