Why was Galileo sentenced by the church?

Answer 1

He was found guilty not for his beliefs but because he tried to reinterpret The Bible, which in those days was the crime of heresy. It was his aggressive promotion of an idea that (at that time) could not be backed up that got him into trouble. The Catholic church said that - as of then - the scriptures said the Earth was at the center and this could not be changed without good proof.

It was not until many years later after Newton's discoveries in gravity and dynamics that Kepler's theory of elliptical orbits with the Sun at the center was adopted by everyone including the Catholic authorities.

Answer 2

Galileo was an advocate of Copernican science, which ran contrary to methods established by Aristotle roughly a thousand years earlier. Galileo developed a theory that, contrary to established dogma, the Earth was not the center of the universe, as the Roman Catholic Church believed, and that it was, in point of fact, a body which moved, as other observable objects did, in the night sky. For this heresy, Galileo was required to abjure his claims, which he eventually did--but from the moment of the Inquisiiton's sentencing, he would spend the remainder of his life under house arrest.

Answer 3

Back then, the people and the church believed in the geocentric theory (that the earth is the center of the universe and all other objects orbits around it). However, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) challenged that theory, he believed in the heliocentric theory in which the sun is the center and the earth and orbits around the sun. The church condemned this as heresy and sentenced Galileo to be under house arrest for the rest of his life.

Answer 4

Galileo was accused of heresy for reinterpreting the scriptures.

Galileo promoted the new theory of the planets' movements among the stars devised by Copernicus. This was against the church's teaching at the time because it placed the Sun at the centre. Galileo was told he could teach the new theory as a convenient way of making predictions, but that he must not insist it was the absolute truth.

After several years of this Galileo published a book with a summary of the argument, in which the Pope was portrayed as a simpleton for maintaining the Earth is at the centre. After that Galileo was put on trial for heresy and asked to provide proof. There was no proof and he was convicted, and he retracted his argument.

But many years later, after Newton's discoveries, it was found that Kepler's model, which used elliptical orbits but retained the idea of having the Sun at the centre, was probably correct, and further discoveries in the next 200 years supported this view so that today it is generally accepted as right. So Galileo turned out to have been right all along, without being able to prove it during his lifetime.

Answer 5

He was condemned because the church that he belonged to didn't like or approve of his ides, so they had him on house arrest for life.

Answer 6

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