Category
Doctrinal suppression
Suppression of dissent, censure of scholarship, condemnation of scientists.
Filed
1 entries- 1633 The Galileo Affair The Roman Inquisition tried Galileo Galilei in 1633 for advocating Copernican heliocentrism, sentenced him to indefinite house arrest, and required him to publicly recant. The Catholic Church formally acknowledged the error of the verdict in 1992.