copernicus and trial of galileo

One of the theories of the solar system was the geocentric theory. It was also called the Ptolemaic worldview. The belief in this system was common in ancient Greece. It was commonly accepted at the time. The theory was that the earth was the center of the universe and other planets and stars go around it. It was embraced by Ancient Greek philosophers called Aristotle and Ptolemy. They believed that the Sun,Moon, stars, and naked eye planets revolve around the Earth.

After this time, the geocentric theory was proved wrong. it was proved wrong by heliocentric theory.It proved that the earth wasn't the center of the universe. It proved that the sun was the center of the universe and that all the planets and the stars revolve around the sun. Scientists started to believed this when they started to notice that the sun and the moon were slowly changing their posotions every day. it wasn't until 1,800 years later, in the 16th century, that the Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus showed a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system. Later in time, it was explained and extended by Johannes Kepler.

Many years ago, there was a man who played a big role in the scientist revolution. He was an

Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. he was the one who made improvements to the telescope Galileo was put to trial because he published a book of his observations of heliocentrism. The church including the Pope Urban who was the leader, believed in the geocentric theory because they felt that is what the word of God was telling them. Galileo tried to prove to them that his theories he found out through his observations , that his theory was precise and that they were wrong but it was quickly rejected because it was against the word of GOD. He gave up on it because he realized he couldn't win and the court put him in house arrest even thought people wanted to put in in jail and torture him. In the end, he died in his house and many years later the church figured out that he was right and they were wrong and they eventually apologized