Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

The difference between the Heliocentric and the geocentric is what each one revolves around. The Heliocentric theory is that all the planets revolve around a giant ball of plasma called a sun. The sun keeps everything rotating to prevent it from going away. The geocentric belief was that all planets and the sun revolve around the earth. The Earth is the planet that keeps everything going. They thought this because thew sun moves around but it looks like the sun moves with the earth and changes, and the planets are always moving. The church thought that for years that everything revolved around the earth but Copernicus was the one to think differently and proposed the heliocentric theory.

The trial of Galileo was supposed to show that all the people had to agree with the Church. Galileo's book was to precise when it comes the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun rather then the accepted tradition of the Sun and the other planets revolving around the Earth. Galileo ended up saying that he apologized that he was lieing to the people about how the planets revolved around the sun, but instead revolved around the Earth. After the trial, he was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life, this was when he tried new experiments.