Friday, September 18, 2009

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo


Copernicus and the trial of Galileo
In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galileo started , two worlds come into conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism were against with the world of Scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church.And since Galileo was against absolutism the end of his liberty and the end of the Renaissance came.
Galileo was very smart he had two theories about the solar system which were
the geocentric and the heliocentric. Geocentric-that the earth is the center of universe and other objects go around it. heliocentric-is the theory that the Sun is stationary and at the center of the universe.
the first theory he had was The Geocentric theory , then he made another theory which was The Heliocentric theory .Also the theory hat came out of the scientific revolution was the heliocentric one that Galileo believed that the sun was the center and that the earth was one of the planet that was around the sun or revolved around.And the correct theory was the heliocentric theory.
The trial of Galileo was basically about him and his theory and the fact he didn't support the absolutism and church, because he had a different way of thinking about science , earth ,etc.
Dominican friar Niccolo Lorini files a complaint with the Roman Inquisition against Galileo's views. Included with the complaint is a copy of Galileo's 1613 letter to Castelli.Then Galileo travels to Rome to defend him self and prove them his theory. Galileo was prohibited to teach his theory so they put him on trial he ask for his trial to be moved to Florence but the Romans didn't move it . the catholic church was putting him in trial because they prohibit
Galileo to not teach his theory because they didn't though it was true they didnt believe it and Galileo didn't pay much attention to what the church prohibited him to do. Galileo believed in his theory that that sun was the center and that the planet revolved around it. but the Catholic Church didn't believe that , because it was opposite to a literal reading of the Bible . But at the end when Galileo was dead they admitted that Galileo's theory was correct.

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