Friday, September 12, 2008

Heliocentrisim and Geocentrisim

Heliocentrisim was one of many theorys to come out about the solar system. It was founded by a famous scicentist named Galileo he was a star gazer and he studied astronomy. Then one day he was looking at the solar system and saw that the earth wasnt the center of the system but then sun was and the source of life. Gencentrisim was the first to come of all theories it was said that the earth was the center of the universe and since earth. Galileo was the also it came out of the scientific revoluition.

He arrived in Rome on 13 February 1633, and was put in the Tuscan embassy. He was sent to the Holy Office and first interrogated on 12 April 1633, sent back to the Tuscan embassy on April 30, and called in again and captured on May 10 and June 21. While held in the Holy Office, Galileo was put in apartments usually occupied by Inquisition officials, rather than prison cells. He was in trial because he believed that the earth was revoling around the sun and that earth wasnt the center of thge earth.

The chatholic church believed that since earth was the brith of man they thought that the earth was the center of the universe and that planets revoled around the erath and Galileo proved them wrong. The church was angry and sent him under arrest for the rest of his life. Lucky he wasnt put to death as that the church wanted him to be.

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