In June 1633, the Inquisition delivered its sentence on Galileo Galilei. The Italian astronomer and physicist was guilty of heresy for having advocated the theory of heliocentrism, i.e. that Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. The heresy was due to heliocentrism conflicting with the scriptures and the geocentric proposition - that the Sun, the Moon, stars and planets orbit Earth.
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I would most probably agree with you if I understood what you were saying.