Bains Elementary School fifth graders role-played a trial between Galileo and the church to their class at Bains Elementary. Camille Burns and Sarah Fudge’s class was split, and each side came ...

The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

The Church believed Earth was the centre of the universe, but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the ...

In 1633, Galileo found himself on trial, accused of heresy for challenging the Church's geocentric dogma ... that echoed louder than any decree. His punishment was house arrest, but even there ...

Other methods of execution included burning at the stake, which was the punishment for heresy. close heresyA belief or opinion which disagrees with the teachings of the Church.