“[you must] abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it...to abandon completely..the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing.” - The Inquisition’s injunction against Galileo, 1616 Briefly give ONE reason why the Catholic Church adopted this position.
The quote from the Inquisition references discoveries in the fields of astronomy. Identify and describe a discovery in ONE OTHER field of inquiry from the seventeenth century.
Some secular authorities embraced rather than attacked the scientists of the seventeenth century. Give ONE reason for this. ith