The Condemnation Of Galileo Galilei Summary

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The condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Catholic Church in the early 1600s for his scientific findings about the Sun and Earth was a midoing but inevitable due to common complacent beliefs and the religious doctrine of the time period.
For instance, in this era the Catholic Church and their interpretation of the Bible reigned supreme and few people ever publicly either intentionally or unintentionally went against the Church’s beliefs and authority on fear of being accused of heresy[C]. The Catholic Church held the holy scriptures in so high regard that if any statement in any way contradicted the the Bible the author would be persecuted. The accuracy of the former is supported by Galileo’s similar personal account in a letter written to