Galileo pushed the world into an age of scientific scrutiny and left the Church little option but to comply. Once a tool, thanks to the philosophies of Aristotle and Augustine, science became a constant thorn in the side of the Church.
My document demonstrates that the Church did in fact view Galileo as a threat to the catholic doctrine and felt endangered by his support and the growing evidence he provides to support the Copernican theory of heliocentrism. It will also give insight into the reason the Church deemed it necessary to eliminate this threat and why Galileo's argument was so detrimental to the catholic doctrine.
The Italian scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilee lay down the principal rudiments of his mechanics in Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World (1632). …
