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Why did the Church seek to silence Galileo?
A. Galileo's observations changed the way we measure space and threatened Church territorial holdings. 
B. Galileo's observations could prove Copernicus's theories about the order of the universe. 
C. Galileo's observations threatened the control the Church had over moral authority. 
D. Galileo's observations threatened the Church's role in proselytizing in the New World.



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the answers b) he would have proven copernicus theorist are correct.

Galileo Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician and philosopher, whose research laid the groundwork for modern mechanics and physics. Representative of the theory of heliocentrism and Copernicanism of the movement and order of celestial bodies. He was fiercely persecuted by the Inquisition, on the pretext that his teaching was directly against the Holy Scripture. He was charged with heresy because he did not want to give up his teachings, why he spent the rest of his life in home detention.

The answer is B.

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