He was found guilty of suspected heresy, for defending the earth's motion, and thus denying the authority of Scripture. “Suspected heresy” was not as serious a religious crime as “formal heresy,” and sohis punishment was not death by being burned at the stake, but rather house arrest ...
Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death. Galileo was excommunicated by the Church and imprison...
In the meantime,Johannes Keplercorrectly identified the sources of tides on Earth – something which Galileo had become interesting in himself. But whereas Galileo attributed the ebb and flow of tides to the rotation of the Earth, Kepler ascribed this behavior to the influence of the Moon. Combin...