Friday, September 12, 2008

Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

The two theories of the Solar System are helicentrism and geocentrism theories. The heliocentric, "is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Solar System." Heliocentrism opposes the geocentric theory. The geocentric theory is that the Earth is at the middle of the Solar System. In the 16th century, a Polish mathmetician and astronomer named Copernicus presenting that the heliocentric theory is correct and even modeling the heliocentric. Copernicus defended Galileo that the Sun was the at the Center of the Solar System.
The theory that came first in the Scientific Revolution was the geocentric theory that was made by Copernicus. Scientific observers were surprised that their conlusions did not match up to the real truth about the world around them. Later in the 17th century, there was progress with the subject of algebra, trigonometry, and geometry that these subjects linked to the numeric values of, "Rene Descartes."
The trial of Galileo is that people didn't believe in his theory. After hearing that Galileo believed that the Sun was at the center of the Solar System, the Catholic Church put him on trial for not believing that the Earth was at the center. The Church examined his observations and models and compare it with the bible of the old and new testament. The Church wanted him to be in pain and death for his ideas in the doctrine and scriptures.

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