HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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The heliocentric system Galileo defended went against the Christian view of the universe.
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Most astronomers already agreed that the planets revolved around the sun.
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Galileo refused to share his new information with the Church.
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Motion in the universe had not yet been explained
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Detailed explanation-1: -Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church.
Detailed explanation-2: -Both scientists held the same theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, a theory now known to be true. However, the Church disapproved of this theory because the Holy Scriptures state that the Earth is at the center, not the Sun.
Detailed explanation-3: -Summoned to Rome for trial by the Inquisition one year later, Galileo defended himself by saying that scientific research and the Christian faith were not mutually exclusive and that study of the natural world would promote understanding and interpretation of the scriptures.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is commonly believed that the Catholic Church persecuted Galileo for abandoning the geocentric (earth-at-the-center) view of the solar system for the heliocentric (sun-at-the-center) view.