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title: 'Galileo Before the Inquisition'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Margaret Junkin Preston'
date: 1848-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Poetry'
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 19'
- 'Romans 1'
- 'Job 38'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/preston-1848-galileo-before-the-inquisition
---

# Galileo Before the Inquisition

Excerpt from The American Female Poets (1848): a biographical notice of Margaret Junkin and her poem "Galileo Before the Inquisition," reflecting on genius, fear, and truth.

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