why was Galileo tried and sentenced to house arrest by the catholic church

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anonymous · Answer

Something about being charged with hersey .

anonymous · Answer

Basically Galileo was in support of Copernican Astronomy, which was met with much opposition from the Catholic Church. At the time, the Church was pretty much central to the government as well as religious matters, therefore they charged him as a heretic and rigged the trial.

anonymous · Answer

For more information on the Galileo Affair, you can visit this wikipedia page. The information is accurate (as far as I read), but I'm not the one working on the question here, so unfortunately I didn't read the whole thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair