The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633 Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, of Florence, aged seventy years, were denounced in 1615, to this Holy Office, for holding as true a false doctrine taught by many, namely, that the sun is immovable in the center of the world, and that the earth moves, and also with a diurnal motion; also…, therefore…the two propositions of the stability of the sun, and the motion of the earth, were qualified by the Theological Qualifiers as follows: 1.The proposition that the sun is in the center of the world and immovable from its place is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical; because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scriptures.