Who was the pope when Galileo Galilei was under trial?
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This is the best question I have seen so far in Yahoo Answers!
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Gregory IX was named Pope.\n\nIt is argued that he represented both the high point and beginnings of the decline of the papacy.  He immediately confronted Frederick II, which resulted in Frederick's open claim of sovereignty over Rome, and a few years later instituted the Papal Inquisition, both of which decisions proved to result in the long term alienation of the public from the Church, making way for the successes of the Protestant Reformation.
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Nicolaus Copernik from Poland. It was known before, but nobody dared to say it. Everybody was horribly afraid of the priests of the Catholic church!!!
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They were all early scientists who had different theories on the solar system. Copernicus thought it to be heliocentric, revolving around the sun, and Galileo and Newton thought the universe was geocentric, revolving around earth.
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Galileo did something that you should never do.  He looked at the sun through a telescope, which later caused him to go blind.  But over a period of time he observed the sun and he saw sunspots.  If you took a ping pong ball and spun it through the air then it might be hard to tell that it was spinning.  But if you put a spot on the same ping pong ball and then spun it through the air then you would even be able to tell how fast it was spinning. It was the same for Galileo.  He was able to measure how long it took the sun to rotate (about 25 days near the equator).
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he created our current calendar\n\nOOPS that was gregory XIII not the III...the others are right...right off of wikipedia....\n\nSaint Gregory III, pope (731-741), a Syrian by birth, succeeded Gregory II in March 731. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire, in which he vainly invoked the intervention of Charles Martel. Also during his reign he conferred the pallium on Saint Boniface in Germany, Willibald in Bohemia, and Bede in England carried on their most successful missionary labours. He died on November 29, 741.
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After the death of Pope Honorius II in 1130 two people were claiming to be Pope. To avoid future confusion, the Tenth Ecumenical Synod (Lateran) in 1139 restricted the election of Pope to cardinals.
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The youngest pope was John XII, who was eighteen when he was elected. Some sources claim the youngest pope was Benedict IX (1032 A.D.), elected at age twelve.
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God.  He is not fallible.  He is the creator of man who is the creator of science.  Man is fallible and therefore so is science.
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http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan-Jarom%C3%ADr-Hanzl%C3%ADk/dp/B000055ZOB
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Why are you asking this question.\nIf your GOD then you should know the answer already.\nBut on the Off chance your not who you say you are.\nThen it has to be President Bush.\nat least he is free.
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Charles Babbage.\n\nRead the artical here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_babbage
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No human is infallible, regardless of what ancient religious dogma says. If popes were infallible, they shouldn't have had to apologize for excommunicating Galileo, or for allowing the Holocaust to happen, or for the Inquisition or Crusades.
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the first Pope was St. Peter (he was named by the own Jesus)(32-67)
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Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430) was one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. In Roman Catholicism, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinian religious order. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fountainheads of Reformation teaching on salvation and grace. Born in Africa as the eldest son of Saint Monica, he was educated and baptized in Italy. His works—including The Confessions, which is often called the first Western autobiography—are still read around the world.
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Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish Astronomer \nGalileo Galilei - Italian Physicist\nJohannes Kepler - German Astronomer \nLord Kelvin (William Thomson) - British Physicist\n"I believe that the more throughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything compariable to athesim"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Pergolesi\nenjoy