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- Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted the Ptolemaic system.
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1 day ago · Did the Roman Catholic Church execute Galileo? No, the Roman Catholic Church did not execute or torture Galileo. For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, the church sentenced him to life imprisonment in 1633.
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May 15, 2024 · The actions taken against Galileo number among the most embarrassing in the Church’s history. Galileo was condemned as a heretic because he believed—rightly, as we know now—that the sun rests at the center of our planetary system, while the earth and all the other planets revolve around it.
3 days ago · Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted the Ptolemaic system .
3 days ago · Scientists, along with the Catholic Church, had adopted Aristotle's view of the earth as fixed in place, since Aristotle's rediscovery 300 years prior. Jeffrey Foss writes that, by Galileo's time, the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic view of the universe had become "fully integrated with Catholic theology".
May 15, 2024 · Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context. By Fr. Paschal Scotti, Ignatius Press, 2017. The story of Galileo and how the Catholic Church treated him in the wake of his proclamations of a heliocentric universe has been told often, but has rarely been told accurately.
May 11, 2024 · THE CONDEMNATION OF GALILEO The case of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is probably of no interest anymore except to the seasoned historian. There is no reason to bring up the subject again if not for the fact that now and then the enemies of the Catholic Church still cite the Church's condemnation of Galileo as evidence for the Church’s alleged “anti-science” attitude or as a case against ...
6 days ago · Galileo’s findings and his outspoken support for the heliocentric theory, which placed the Sun at the center of the solar system, contradicted the geocentric view supported by the Catholic Church at the time. As a result, he faced significant opposition and was eventually accused of heresy.
