The Church believed Earth was the centre of the universe, but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the ...

Galileo provides an excellent illustration of ... to any real improvement in those constraints. (In the play, the Church opposes the new science because it would lead to social disorder, as ...

To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and therefore our planet was not the absolute center of the universe, as the Church maintained the Bible had it.

Galileo lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy, written in 139AD, was still being used by the Church as “evidence” and “confirmation” for ...

By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest. However, Galileo's trials and theories inspired others like ...

Jupiter had its own moons, four of them (now called the Galilean Moons), revolving around the gas giant in defiance of everything the Church held sacred. In 1633, Galileo found himself on trial ...