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Why was galileo tried and sentenced to house arrest by the catholic church?

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Galileo challenged church teaching by saying that the Heliocentric model of the universe was true

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Galileo was tried and sentenced to house arrest by the Catholic Church because he expressed support for the Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus, which states that Earth and all the other planets revolve around the Sun, and this theory was greatly opposed by the Catholic Church, which believed in the Geocentric model of the Solar System (The Sun and all the other planets revolve around the Earth).

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