Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

During the 1500's people were debating over to solar system theories. One theory was that the earth was the center of all planets including the sun which is called the geocentric theory. Another theory was that the sun was the the center of all planets, this theory was called the heliocentric theory. The heliocentric theory was a theory made by Nicolaus Copernicus. He was born in the year 1473 till 1543. Copernicus mad a model of the sun being the center of the earth and all the other planets.




The trial of Galileo is a trial from the RCC against the belief of a man named Galileo Galilei. Galileo was an Italian scientist who was born on February 15, 1564. He invented one of the first telescope which was very useful to him. The trial of Galileo is about a man useful to him. With the telescope he was able to make observations of the planets. His observations changed the whole teachings of the Roman Catholic Church about the solar system. He discovered many new things about the other planets such as which planets had moons and he study our own moon. But his teaching and beliefs went against the Roman Catholic's teachings. The church told Galileo to take back all his beliefs but he refused. After refusing they put Galileo to trial and sentence him to have house arrest for the rest of his life. After many years of house arrest he later died at the age of seventy-seven. When he died, he died defending his theory and also died with the end of the Italian Renaissance. His theory was not later proven many years later by both science and the RCC.