Who was persecuted by the church for thinking the earth was round and that the sun was the center of the solar

Question

system?

Answer 1

Galileo Galilei

He got the idea in 1610, but presented the idea in 1611 to the church.

in 1614, Father Tommaso Caccini officially claimed Galileo was wrong and almost charged him with heresy.

capernicous was very hesitant to give the church his idea and never officially proposed the idea to them, but he wrote a book in 1514 but was afraid to publish it.

in In 1533, Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter theorized and summed up ol cappies work and gave it to the church himself.

On 1 November 1536, Archbishop of Capua Nicholas Schönberg wrote a letter to noting of his knowledge and experience and wish ol Cappy to show the idea

In connection with the Galileo affair, Copernicus' book was suspended until corrected by the Index of the Catholic Church in 1616 and Cappy had no problem with this (to avoid prosictution)

The book stayed on the Index until 1758. In that period Galileo Galilei was found guilty in 1633 for "following the position of Copernicus"

Cappy was silenced by his own common sense at first, then the church, but Gally didn't learn from the experience and suffered the consiquences for following the idea Cappy set first

Answer 2

You're confusing two very different ideas here.

I don't think _anybody_ was ever persecuted for thinking that the Earth was round. That had been well known since Greek classical times (Eratosthenes), and was being practically demonstrated every day with voyages of discovery in the 15th and 16th century by Cabot, Columbus, Magellan, Amerigo Vespucci, etc. These guys were bringing back gold and spices, so nobody was going to give them grief.

Thinking that the Sun was the centre of the solar system was also not a new idea, having been proposed in classical Greek times (though not as popular as Aristotle's theory). It was firmly established by Copernicus in the middle of the 16th century and widely accepted. It was Galileo's attempts in the early 17th century to popularize the theory by writing books about it in Italian rather than Latin that got him into trouble with the church.

Answer 3

Although it should be noted that it was the works of Aristotle, improperly cannonized as scripture by the Catholic church, that created the basis for the persecution. Nothing in the Bible declares or demands a flat earth.

Answer 4

Copernicus was the first to come up with that theory.

Answer 5

Galileo

To quote:

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."