The Catholic Church has officially recognized that the Earth revolves around the sun, but in 1822, the year Bashny.Net

It was late by more than a hundred let



We know from the course of history, the Catholic Church earlier advocated the idea geocentrism, but not everyone knows exactly when it became a story, not reality.



In 1632, the year Galileo and the Catholic Church has a little quarrel. You may have heard about this. Part of the conflict occurred because Galileo had evidence contrary to the geocentric theory, and partly - because Galileo was named Pope fool. Probably all of the time Dad would come into a rage from the second crime, but few people know that the church officially changed his mind about the first.

It happened in 1822, the year. Prior to that, for centuries geocentricism served as a battleground for different religions and religious factions. Protestantism and Catholicism were fighting for religious domination, so if one church ceded its position on geocentrism, the second would be immediately accused her of Failure to follow the canon of Scripture. As a result, both the religious movements have insisted on a stationary Earth as the center of the solar system.



In schools where there was more progress. For much of the 1700s people insisted that students should be taught both models. As soon as more professional and amateur astronomers learned the truth, the geocentric model was gradually losing its popularity: it contradicted all the data accumulated by scientists. Gradually schools ceased to talk about the geocentric model and 1800s to give it up completely.

Therefore, when the Catholic Church convened the College of Cardinals, in which people were "allowed" to know that in the center of the solar system is still the sun, the public probably had great fun on this "assent».

via factroom.ru