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Why did the religious authorities feel threatened by the ideas of Copernicus and Galileo?

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the title with the sea in it might have made the Church feel threatened that Galileo was supporting heliocentrism, which would have resulted in Galileo being charged with heresy. Dialogues were structured as several conversations between a supporter of Ptolemy, a Copernicus supporter, and a neutral arbitrator.

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