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    What was Galileo's punishment for challenging the Roman Catholics' view that the Earth was the center of the universe?

    Question #43338. Asked by Hamlet.. (Jan 13 04 5:58 PM)


    mochyn

    		house arrest

    Jan 13 04, 6:03 PM
    Tadpole Angel

    		House arrest for the remainder of his life.
    http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Bio/narrative_7.html

    Jan 13 04, 6:15 PM
    Hamlet.

    		He was ordered to recant (supposedly he uttered the famous statement: "And yet it moves," a referance to the Copernican theory that the Earth rotates on its axis), and was originally to be imprisoned.

    However, the Pope commuted his sentence to house arrest...which Galileo served until he died blind at the age of seventy-eight.

    Jan 13 04, 6:41 PM

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