Galileo's Condemnation

It is evident that the Catholic Church realized their inaccuracy of their theory of the function of the solar system. After several centuries, the church accepted the truth in the theory of Galilei’s heliocentrism theory. The Timeline further explains that in, “1939: Pope Pius XII called Galileo a hero of research”(Doc A: Line 14). Galileo was no longer known as heresy of the Catholic religion but rather a hero that drew the line between reality and belief.

An important thing to remember is that is the 16th and 17th centuries, there was no separation between State and the Church. Most/all rules in the State had to do something with the Bible and how it had been interpreted, and it anyone had opposed the ideas of the Bible, they would not only get punished by the church, but also by the State. This made it laborious to try to prove an idea with science, just as Galileo was trying to do. Not even the smallest accusation about the church was taken lightly, “As you know, the Council [of Trent] prohibits interpreting the Scriptures contrary to the common agreement of the holy Fathers.” (Document B). At this point Galileo had only just started his discoveries, and sharing them with the public and church. Even though Galileo never explicitly vocalized that the scriptures were wrong, just by throwing the idea out that the Earth revolved around the Sun, caused disagreement from the Church and State. The timing that Galileo started to speak about his discoveries and thoughts about the universe was not the best. He started to say his ideas only a little after Bruno. Galileo supported Bruno’s idea on how the universe worked. This was probably not the best idea for Galileo, considering that Bruno had been burned to death in 1600, for the popular belief that he was going against the Bible. The main difference between

In late 1632, after writing Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo was dictated to go to Rome to be investigated by the Holy Office of the Inquisition. In January 1633, a particularly unhealthy Galileo executed an strenuous travel to Rome. There has been much dispute over the circumstances influencing Galileo’s ordeal. There is also contention over the legitimacy of the statements against Galileo, both in terms of their content and judicial procedure. Specifically, he had been encumbered with educating and advocating the Copernican dogma that believes that the Sun is at the center of the cosmos and that the earth

In the letter Galileo explained that it would not matter if something in the Bible was disproven, the primary purpose of the Bible is salvation. He also believed that God gave him and others intellect. He reasoned that if God did not want people to gain knowledge, then God would not have gave them the ability to reason or the ability to make new discoveries. Galileo also believed that if the sacred scribes wanted us to have all the answers they would have written them, and that the Holy Ghost intended to only teach us how to get to heaven, not how heaven goes.

The most significant origin of the conflict between religion and science during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was the condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church. Since Galileo supported a

When Galileo’s astronomical claims became public, it was a large blow to The Church. The Church claimed that he was undermining the power of Scripture. If it had publically accepted Galileo’s claims, the Church’s authority would be further questioned. By suggesting that the earth revolved around the Sun, Galileo was questioning centuries of what people regarded to be the “truth,” and this did not sit well with the Church leaders. However, he did explain that he was not questioning the Bible itself, but questioning the interpretation of the Bible by those in positions of spiritual authority.

These intellectuals significantly influenced the world leaders and institutions of the time, although the Catholic Church refused to accept most of the newly discovered scientific laws/theories as legitimate, as they opposed the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic faith. An example of the bigotry of the Catholic Church in this time, is the persecution of Galileo Galilei, which occurred due to his discoveries regarding a heliocentric solar system conflicting with the geocentric views of the Church. This conflict of beliefs led to the Church convicting Galileo of heresy, sentencing him to banishment, despite ample amounts of evidence and the approval of a variety of intellectuals supporting his

My client should be set free from prison not not be charged for heresy. He has proven how god has created the heavens you may have trastled the bible wrong and besides hardly any of your priests can read. Galileo has several majors in astronomy, physics,mathematics,and philosophy. He is a son of a musician,in 1589 he became a professor of mathematics at

In the article “French Reaction to the Condemnation of Galileo, 1632-1642,” which appears in The Catholic Historical Review, Lisa T. Sarasohn is refuting the generalization that all of Catholic Europe wanted to suppress the ideas brought forth by the Scientific Revolution. Sarasohn argues that France was a pivotal setting for the publicizing of Galileo’s science in Europe because the French reaction to Galileo contrasted from the rest of Catholic Europe, by virtue of its political and religious demeanor. Thus, in France, one was at liberty to converse and accept Copernicanism and Galileo with sincerity. Sarasohn states, “Their [Gassendi and Mersenne] actions prove that the traditional wisdom of Jacob Bronowski and others that science virtually

Notably, after Galileo Galilei confirmed the scientific discovery of Copernicus, stating that it was in fact the sun at the centre of the solar system, the Catholic Church denounced his discovery due to it having contradicted the Bible. Despite this belief coming out of Rome, Pope Urban VIII called upon Galileo to visit him in Rome to recount his findings in 1633; this trip to Rome would be the final time that he would meet with members of the Catholic clergy. As a result of this meeting, Galileo was persecuted for having committed heresy due to him being unable to prove to the Church that Copernicus was right.

In the history of the Catholic Church, no episode is so contested by so many viewpoints as the condemnation of Galileo. The Galileo case, for many, proves the Church abhors science, refuses to abandon outdated teachings, and is clearly not infallible. For staunch Catholics the episode is often a source of embarrassment and frustration. Either way it is undeniable that Galileo’s life sparked a definite change in scientific thought all across Europe and symbolised the struggle between science and the Catholic Church.

He agreeing that his ideas of copernicus was false by putting himself in not sticking up for his ideas and his beliefs. The church leaders were clearly wrong to condemn him but they acted a good faith. It was not a simple conflict between science and religion, as usually portrayed. Rather it was a conflict between copernican science and Aristotelian science which had become church tradition.

Towards the conclusion of Galileo's letter he offers an argument of truths. The argument basically states this: if the truth of the Bible conflicts with the truth of fact, and two truths cannot contradict, then one or the other is wrong. Since the truth of fact cannot be wrong, except for ignorance, then the scientific interpretations found in the Bible may therefore be in err. Galileo's doesn't exactly feel that the Bible is wrong, he is just providing one more argument towards the difference in science and the Bible. The errors themselves, he states, are most likely due to the inability to "affirm that all

As Barberini, now robed as POPE URBAN VIII, the Inquisitor insists that Galileo’s mathematical charts should be destroyed, warning that if the people start to doubt the Vatican, it won’t be long before they doubt the Gospel.

Development and change are issues which the church fears due to the fact that advancement undermine the strength of the chruch when changes are brought to religion. The church's opinion and attitude towards Galileo's discoveries are clearly outlined by Sagredo on Pg. 23 as he states: