versy. He was offered a lifetime professorship at the University of Padua, he declined the offer, he later resigned and returned to Florence. Some theologians claimed that Copernicus, and therefore Galileo, was conflicting with the bible and the doctrines of the church about the order of creation. He was told to teach his findings only as theory not as truth.In 1615, Galileo’s book about his findings was banned by the church. Galileo remained quiet for a few years until he published his next book, which compared the two models of the universe, although Galileo carefully presented the various claims in theoretical terms it was apparent he believed the Ptolmemaic- were all planets including the sun orbit the earth, was false. And the Copernician system- were all planets orbit the sun was true. Even though it received the church’s imprimaur it was later banned shortly after its publication.Galileo was summoned to Rome to answer to his inquisition to stand trial for heresy, the charge was ’did he defy the paper-ban of teaching the Copernician system’. After a five-month trial he was found guilty and was sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his life. As time went on, his popularity grew and noted figures such as John Milton went out of their way to visit him shortly before his death. Galileo worked solo on his experiments on his love of physics and mathematics, and in his later years as more of his family died he lived a lonely man for the last of years, and by 1637 he was totally blind. Galileo died on the night of January 8, 1642 in Arcetri. He was buried at a private cemetery, approximately a century later and his remains were shifted to a fine tomb in the Cathedral Church. Unlike Copernicus or Kepler, he was not a systematic or a speculative thinker, preferring to base his work on a careful inquiry into the causes of natural philosophy. As indicated by his various inventions, he was also interested in ap...
