Friday, September 12, 2008

The trial of Galileo

Galileo studied Astronomy with a telescope. He found out that geocentric (Copernican) Theory was a false statement. He realized that instead of the planets circuling the Earth, Its the plantes revolvein the Sun. He found out by looking at the Moon and the Sun. The Sun dosent move the whole day while the Moon moves the oppisite way.
Geocentric:Earth was at the center while the rest of the planets revolved around it. The Sun was named as a planet also the moon. The person that made that theory was Alexandia that lived in Egypt. Afterwards Greeks, Muslims and Christians worked on the theory and made conclusions saying all planets revolved around the Earth.
Heliocentric: The Earth is placed at the middle and planets revolved around it.
Copernicus made that theory centeries ago. He was a Polish Astronomer. What helped him make that hypothesis was the Stars. That made him prove about the Heliocentric Theory.
The Heliocentric came first which was made centries ago. 1543.
The trail started in
1633, when the Catholic Church didn't wanted to belive in Galileo.

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