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Some religious people in the Catholic Church accused Galileo of being in error for his scientific assertion that the earth revolved around the sun; this contradicted Christian understanding of the Bible and in 1633, Galileo became a victim of the Inquisition; he was forced by the Pope to admit he was wrong about his theory. It would not be until 1992 that the Catholic Church, under Pope John Paul II, officially apologized for its persecution of Galileo.

But while he was correct that the earth was not "fixed" as the church believed, Galileo did make some errors during his lifetime of scientific experimentation. Probably his biggest mistake was his 1616 theory about what caused the tides; he did not realize that there was a relationship between the moon and the tides, and instead attributed them to the earth speeding up and slowing down at different times of the day.

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