Vertaling van "forced to recant his scientific " (Engels → Frans) :

As honourable senators know, in 1633, Galileo was condemned by the Catholic Church and forced to recant his scientific belief that the Earth was not the centre of the universe.
Sur le plan historique, en 1633, condamné par l'Église catholique, vous vous souviendrez que Galilée fut obligé de renier ses convictions scientifiques selon lesquelles la Terre n'est pas au centre de l'univers.

He recanted and refused his scientific observations and continued to make them in secret.
Il a certes abjuré ces dernières, mais il a continué d'en faire en secret.