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Gallileo got jailed for the theory of heliocentrism(formally), but not really. He was imprisoned for the Pope to seem "tough on heresy".
by JAlexoid 6y ago
Gallileo got jailed for the theory of heliocentrism(formally), but not really. He was imprisoned for the Pope to seem "tough on heresy".
- mcv 6y agoGalileo was not jailed at all, but got house arrest. And he got it mainly because he insulted the pope. Before that, he was actually on very good terms with the pope and the pope was seriously entertaining the idea of heliocentrism, but wasn't convinced because the evidence didn't add up, which indeed it didn't, because Galileo insisted on circular orbits that didn't match observations. Galileo was right about heliocentrism, but his model for it was incorrect, and that was a big factor in why it wasn't adopted. Asked by the pope to write a book to discuss the merits of heliocentrism and geocentrism in a balanced way, he instead used that book to insult the pope (he had a character called 'Simplico', or 'Fool', use arguments the pope had used), after which he fell out of favour, got investigated by the inquisition, which added a heresy charge for good measure. But for a long time his ideas weren't considered heretical at all and were seriously considered.
- JAlexoid 6y ago+100 Gallileo isn't relevant in this context at all.