With Looming Execution and Serious Innocence Concerns, Calls Mount for Virginia to Grant Clemency to Ivan Teleguz. Amid mounting concerns that Virginia may execute an innocent man on April 25, a diverse group of religious, political, and business leaders are calling on Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to grant clemency to Ivan Teleguz (pictured).
In the early 17th century, Galileo made the telescope, which he is very famous. Galileo Galilei. for, and proved Copernicusâ theory. He proved the theory by stating that he saw four moons orbiting Jupiter, which proves that the not everything is orbiting around the Earth, which was the first proof.
Galileo's support for the heliocentric theory (note that this is Copernicus's theory, not Galileo's) got him into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. In 1633 the Inquisiti â¦ on convicted him of heresy and forced him to recant (publicly withdraw) his support of Copernicus.e was an Italian scientist of the 17th century. He did not prove  the heliocentric theory. But everyone accepts the heliocentric  principle now, after it was proved right; â¦ but that happened long  after Galileo's time, after new scientific discoveries in the  latter half of the 1600s. Geoff Canyon.