Was Galileo a heritic?

People who were considered heretic had their own ideology and they often opposed the church’s teachings. Galileo had ideas of his own and was the first to put forth the “Copernican Theory” : Galileo believed that the Earth evolved around she sun and not that the universe revolved around.

Earth. Early in 1616, Galileo was accused of being a heretic, a person who opposed Church teachings. Heresy was a crime for which people were sometimes sentenced to death. Galileo was cleared of charges of heresy, but was told that he should no longer publicly state his belief that Earth moved around the Sun. Galileo continued his study of astronomy and became more and more convinced that all planets revolved around the Sun. In 1632, he published a book that stated, among other things, that the heliocentric theory of Copernicus was correct. Galileo was once again called before the Inquisition and this time was found guilty of heresy. Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1633. Because of his age and poor health, he was allowed to serve his imprisonment under house arrest. Galileo died on January 8, 1642.

To conclude, Galileo was persecuted and had obtained charges of heresy through the church because he had a different perspectives, ideas, and reasoning. Therefore he was considered a heretic at the time. On the contrary, Galileo’s proven ideas have revolutionized science and given us a better understanding in astronomy, so there are strong possibilities that he should not be considered as a heretic anymore.

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