Friday, September 18, 2009

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

The theory of church came first as civilization grew and grew to a more complex understanding of the world as they said that everything in the universe moves around Earth. This was the Geocentric theory was when most of the beliefs in the world were about church it took 1,800 years for people such as Galileo and Nicolaus known as Copernicus. People that have stood up to the beliefs of the church about facing the "facts" about the existence of humans and all living things.

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to display the theory to the world called heliocentric. the heliocentric theory was mostly about that the sun was in the middle of the universe and Earth was rotating around it. Galileo Galilei made a book explaining things about physics and astronomy that went against all beliefs of the church and the pope at that time Urban went by the scripture which had said that the earth is in the center of the universe. They had put Galileo on trial for writing a book about the sun being in the center of the universe and going against the scripture of the church. Galileo couldn't publish the book and had to say that the earth was in the center while still knowing it wasn't. It was either that or they would of killed him. The church and Galileo had different thoughts about whether the sun was in the center or the earth was.

No comments:

Post a Comment