How did Galileo spend the final decade of his life?
A) He was placed under house arrest by the church, and all of his books were banned.
B) He became an eminent professor of astronomy at the University of Pisa.
C) He refused to recant, was arrested, tried as a heretic, and burned at the stake.
D) He concluded that new learning was blasphemous, recanted, and became a monk.
E) He turned to telling fortunes for his income and died in obscurity.
Answer: A
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