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Who was famously put under house arrest because he challenged the Catholic Church and its teachings by introducing new scientific ideas?

A) Copernicus B) Galileo C) Newton D) Einstein

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B) Galileo
He was put under house arrest for advocating for Copernicus’s theory of a heliocentric solar system.
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Galileo was put under house arrest by the Catholic church until his in 1642.
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