Why did Galileo fall out of favor with the Roman Catholic Church?

Answer 1

I have referred to this in my answers several times.

Galileo was a bit of a braggart. When someone told him about the telescope, he ground his own lens and then told the Venetian Military that he invented it. He also sold them the invention.

According to the Catholic Church (the only Christian Church of the time) though the worst thing he did was to use his telescope to observe the moons of Jupiter. By doing this he proved that the teachings of the church were wrong; everything did NOT revolve around the Earth. This was a fundamental change to the Christian Universe. The Church told him to keep quiet and he refused. His simple observations, and his habit of showing it to other people was declared to be Hearsay!

For that crime he was condemned to spend the rest of his life in his tower. Where despite the Church he continued his scientific observations, and his groundbreaking work on gravity and falling objects was important work that helped Newton design the modern rules of Physics. (Oh, Pope John Paul pardoned him 300 years after the fact, but his heart was in the right place; to bad that vision didn’t come in time to prevent the religious oppression of science that was so common until the Renaissance period.)

Answer 2

Galileo fell out of favor with the church because the official position of the Vatican was that the sun orbitted the Earth. Galileo promoted a theory that it was the other way around: the Earth orbits the sun. Galileo was severely censured by Rome for promoting and teaching this theory.

So much for Papal Infalibility.

Answer 3

In 1611 he visited Rome to display the telescope to the papal court. In 1616 the system of Copernicus was denounced as dangerous to faith, and Galileo, summoned to Rome, was warned not to uphold it or teach it. But in 1632 he published a work written for the nonspecialist, Dialogo … sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo [dialogue on the two chief systems of the world] (tr. 1661; rev. and ed. by Giorgio de Santillana, 1953; new tr. by Stillman Drake, 1953, rev. 1967); that work, which supported the Copernican system as opposed to the Ptolemaic, marked a turning point in scientific and philosophical thought. Again summoned to Rome, he was tried (1633) by the Inquisition and brought to the point of making an abjuration of all beliefs and writings that held the sun to be the central body and the earth a moving body revolving with the other planets about it. Since 1761, accounts of the trial have concluded with the statement that Galileo, as he arose from his knees, exclaimed sotto voce, E pur si muove [nevertheless it does move]. That statement was long considered legendary, but it was discovered written on a portrait of Galileo completed c.1640.

Or to put it another way: up to then, the popular conception held man to be the center of the universe (Cf. Chinese belief they are the "Middle Kingdom" in center of world.). Galileo moved the center to the sun and we were no longer # 1.

Answer 4

HE was the first to notice the Earth was NOT the center of the universe, and stated the Earth revolved around the Sun...not too popular with the powers that be at that time.

Answer 5

I useta know all that stuff. Maybe it had something to do with him getting a grant for throwing stuff off a high tower with no particular target in mind other than watching it smack into the ground below. " Eh - heh! " Said Gianfranco;
" Ah'm - a coulda get - a my kid - a to do dot - uh! " In a fit of logical indignation, he said. I guess the clerics got the lead and roped him onto the carpet. " So Gal ... whutsuh story, eh? "

Answer 6

Because the cathiloc church thought that the earth was at the center of the universe he did not,they thought that the earth was special.

Answer 7

Didn't he claim that the earth revolved around the sun? Christians hate science.

Answer 8

Both the Bible and Galileo said the earth was an ORB!

The poop, knowing he was infallible - said it was FLAT.

Answer 9

Being an astronomer, he couldn't spin flax into gold.