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| | Stillman Drake of the [[University of Toronto]] [http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utq/701/galileo46.html] was for the last decades of his life the most original and important scholar to study this seventeenth-century physicist.<ref>[http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/imago/drake.html|The Stillman Drake Collection]</ref> | | Stillman Drake of the [[University of Toronto]] [http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utq/701/galileo46.html] was for the last decades of his life the most original and important scholar to study this seventeenth-century physicist.<ref>[http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/imago/drake.html|The Stillman Drake Collection]</ref> |
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| | * Early in 1616, Galileo was accused of being a heretic, a person who opposed Church teachings. Heresy was a crime for which people were sometimes sentenced to death. Galileo was cleared of charges of heresy, but was told that he should no longer publicly state his belief that Earth moved around the Sun.<ref name="nasabio"> [http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/galileo.html Galileo Galilei] - NASA bio</ref> | | * Early in 1616, Galileo was accused of being a heretic, a person who opposed Church teachings. Heresy was a crime for which people were sometimes sentenced to death. Galileo was cleared of charges of heresy, but was told that he should no longer publicly state his belief that Earth moved around the Sun.<ref name="nasabio"> [http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/galileo.html Galileo Galilei] - NASA bio</ref> |
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| − | * In 1632, he published a book that stated, among other things, that the heliocentric theory of Copernicus was correct. Galileo was once again called before the Inquisition and this time was found guilty of heresy. Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1633.<ref name="nasabio" /> | + | * In 1632, he published a book that stated, among other things, that the heliocentric theory of Copernicus was correct. Galileo was once again called before the Inquisition and this time was found guilty of publishing his book in the Church's name despite its disapproval. But Galileo was never condemned. Galileo was confined to a house arrest in 1633.{{fact}}<ref name="nasabio" /> |
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| − | * On 31 October 1992, 350 years after Galileo's death, Pope John Paul II gave an address on behalf of the Catholic Church in which he admitted that errors had been made by the theological advisors in the case of Galileo. He declared the Galileo case closed, but he did not admit that the Church was wrong to convict Galileo on a charge of heresy because of his belief that the Earth rotates round the sun. [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Galileo.html] | + | * On 31 October 1992, 350 years after Galileo's death, Pope John Paul II gave an address on behalf of the Catholic Church in which he admitted that errors had been made by the theological advisers in the case of Galileo. He declared the Galileo case closed, but did not admit that the Church was wrong to convict Galileo on a charge of misrepresenting the Church teaching of the time concerning whether the Earth rotates around the sun. [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Galileo.html] Both Protestant and Catholics at the time felt that the sun rotates around the Earth. |
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