explain the two theories of the solar system; the geocentric and the heliocentric. Which theory came first, and which theory came out of the scientific revolution?
Then describe the trial of Galileo. Why was the Catholic Church putting him on trial? What did Galileo believe in and what did the Catholic church believe in? Geocentric:if the universe is the disproven theory that the Earth is at the center of the universe and the Sun and other objects go around it. Belief in this system was common in ancient Greece. Heliocentric:is the theory that the sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The geocentric theory came first and the heliocentric came out of the scientific revolution. Galileo Galilei faced trial before the Holy Office for promoting in a book his idea that the earth did not sit at the center of the universe. In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei, two worlds come into cosmic conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of Scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church. The Catholic church put Galileo on trail because he had violated the 1616 (so-called) injunction against teaching, holding, or writing about Copernican theory.
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