The heliocentric model was widely rejected by the Catholic church, which controlled most of Europe at the time. Throughout the show, Galileo struggles to choose between following his scientific ...

But Galileo's championing of heliocentrism – the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the centre of the Solar System – was met with opposition from ...

Part of the reason Galileo got in trouble was that he made it personal. His Dialogue was written in the form of a conversation between three people - a supporter of the heliocentric model, a ...

The heliocentric theory holds that Earth moves around the Sun at great speed, a controversial idea in Galileo's time. Even today, many people are still perplexed by the fact that we don't ...

The letter makes the remarkable claim that, "The Galileo heliocentric theory has no basis today." In reality, the "common sense" heliocentric theory is as factual today as it was in 1633.

In 1933, the year after the publication of 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems', which presented supporting arguments for the heliocentric model, Galileo was sentenced to formal ...

Galileo supported the heliocentric model, in which the Earth and the other planets in the solar system orbit the sun, proposed by Copernicus in 1453 to supplant the geocentric model where the sun ...

Aug. 31's "Back to Galileo" writer says: "Under the geocentric (Earth centered) theory it's impossible for Venus to exhibit phase changes. Only under the heliocentric (sun centered) theory can ...