Because it made a nonsense of what they had been telling people for thousands of years and if that was nonsense, perhaps people may begin to think all they were teaching was nonsense and they would lose power. (which is what happened).
The Copernican system, which proposed that the Earth revolved around the Sun, was supported by astronomers like Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei. However, it faced opposition from religious authorities, such as the Catholic Church, who adhered to the geocentric model of the universe.
The Roman Catholic Church, which was politically powerful at the time, espoused the tenet that the Earth was the center of the universe. Galileo's promotion of the Copernican solar system caused him to be convicted of heresy.
Galileo was imprisoned for promoting the heliocentric model of the solar system, which challenged the geocentric beliefs of the Catholic Church. He was found guilty of heresy by the Inquisition for supporting Copernican theory.
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The proposed the heliocentric system.
Yes, Galileo wrote "Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" in 1632. The book compared the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system and argued for the heliocentric model of the universe. This work ultimately got Galileo into trouble with the Catholic Church.
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The Copernican System is an astronomical model; published in 1543.See more information at the related Wikipedia link listed below.
The Copernican System is an astronomical model; published in 1543.See more information at the related Wikipedia link listed below.
it is called the canon law
it proposed ideas that were contrary to religious teachings
Galileo promoted the Copernican model of the planets, with the Sun at the centre. The church told him not to say it was the absolute truth but just to teach it as a theory for predicting the planets' positions, pending more conclusive proof. He discovered things with his telescope that raised doubts about the old Ptolemaic system with the Earth at the centre. The moons of Jupiter were definitely not orbiting the Earth, and the full range of Venus's phases were a major failure of the Ptolemaic theory. Galileo maintained this must prove that the Copernican theory must be right: but Tycho produced a model with the Earth at the center that correctly predicted the full range of Venus's phases.