WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He had published a book that supported scientific ideas that opposed ideas of the Church, more specifically the idea that the planets orbit the sun. 1633, Galileo was interrogated by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in Rome for 18 days, trying to get him to confess to heresy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms 1521. Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church’s teachings starting in 1517. The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Scientific Revolution and its challenging of the Church’s ideas were followed by the Period of Enlightenment where people not only question the Church’s ideas but also began to question their authority.

Detailed explanation-5: -In his later years Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei insisted on the truth of the geocentric system, said UCLA professor Henry Kelly. Today virtually every child grows up learning that the earth orbits the sun.