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1. Galileo Galilei

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   The Trial and Conflict with the Church
   Galileo's staunch advocacy for the Copernican system, particularly after the publication of his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), brought him into direct conflict with the Roman Inquisition. The core theological issue revolved around the interpretation of Scripture regarding a stationary Earth. Galileo maintained that the Bible teaches how to "go to heaven," not how the heavens "go."
   In 1633, the Inquisition found him vehemently suspected of heresy for holding and defending Copernicanism as an es…