Friday, September 18, 2009

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

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One of the theory's was the Geocentric and that was the old one. It had placed the earth at the center of the soloar system and everything that orbits it. The geocentric model was created by Greek astronomers assumed that the celestial bodies moving about the Earth followed perfectly circular paths.

The second theory was that the sun is stationary and at the center of the universe.
Historically, heliocentrism was apposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center. This is the correct theory.

The trial of Galileo was very important and it happenend in the year of 1633. Galieo had scientific skills and it helped prove the theory of heliocentrism. The catholic church was putting Galileo on trial because he had published a book about that the sun is the center of the universe and the planets move around it. Galileo had belived in heliocentrism and the Catholic church had belived in heliocentrism and the church wanted to know the truth.

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