In this play, Christopher Clavius declares that a character who rejects the existence of crystal (*) spheres is correct.
In a scene in this play, one character criticizes two clerks playing chess for not moving their pieces all around the board according to the new rules. In multiple scenes in this play, that character drops a stone and sarcastically claims that the stone flew upwards. A second "American version" of this play was created by its author in collaboration with actor Charles Laughton, who played the title role. In this play, Christopher Clavius declares that a character who rejects the existence of crystal (*) spheres is correct. The title character of this play teaches the young Andrea Sarti. That title character's daughter, Virginia, loses her fiancé Ludovico because of the ideas of her father, who recants before the Papal Inquisition. For 10 points, name this play by Bertolt Brecht about the title astronomer.
In a scene in this play, one character criticizes two clerks playing chess for not moving their pieces all around the board according to the new rules.
The Life of Galileo [or Leben des Gallilei]