Galileo affair
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP Galileo before the Holy Office , a 19th-century painting by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury The Galileo affair (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei ) was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610, [1] culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism. [2] In 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius ( Starry Messenger ), describing the surprising observations that he had made with the new telescope, namely the phases of Venus and the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations he promoted the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus (published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543). Galileo's initial discoveries were met with opposition within the Catholic Church, and in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be formally heretical. Heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to refrain from holding, teaching or defend...