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Galileo: Running Up Against The Catholic Church

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In the year 1633, Galileo was running up against the catholic church, Which side will win? We shall find out. Galileo was born in the year 1564, early ages showing signs of scientific skills. By the age of nineteen he discovered the isochronism of the pendulum. The trial or the dispute all started when galileo began to say that the earth revolves around the sun and it does but back then they didn’t believe that. Galileo was then ordered to turn himself into the holy office to begin his trial for believing that the earth revolved around the sun.
The trial was deemed heretical by the catholic church, and the standard practice demanded that the person who is being accused be imprisoned and be deserted during the whole trial. This was not the first
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