HELIOCENTRISM THEORY

The second of the references by Plutarch is in his Platonic Questions:

In February 1616, the Inquisition assembled a committee of theologians, known as qualifiers, who delivered their unanimous report condemning heliocentrism as “foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture.” The Inquisition also determined that the Earth’s motion “receives the same judgement in philosophy and … in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith.” Bellarmine personally ordered Galileo

and his straightforward statement,

According to J. L. Heilbron, informed contemporaries of Galileo’s “appreciated that the reference to heresy in connection with Galileo or Copernicus had no general or theological significance.”

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