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The Heresy of Galileo
Title: The Heresy of Galileo
Category: History
Details: Words: 1512 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Heresy of Galileo
THE HERESY OF GALILEO
Galileo was condemned by the Inquisition, not for his own brilliant theories, but because
he stood up for his belief in Copernicus's theory that the earth was not, as the Church insisted, the
center of the universe, but that rather, the universe is heliocentric. Galileo was a man of
tremendous intellect and imagination living in a era dominated by the Catholic Church, which
attempted to control the people by dictating their …showed first 75 words of 1512 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1512 total…the theologians. At the hands of Galileo, the heliocentric system threatened the
geocentric and, much more serious, God's creation was becoming an object of direct human
observation which could be interpreted without the help of the Scriptures or of religion. In short,
Galileo was condemned because he could not keep his opinions to himself and could not resist the
temptation to expose the ignorance, deceit, and manipulation of the powerful religious leaders of
the time.
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