I am also a “Galileo was a dick” truther
if you take the pope’s money to write a book, and then that book features a character straight-up named Simpleton who quotes the pope verbatim just so your self-insert character can look smart by correcting him, you cannot be surprised when the pope is mad
Claire Willett
also Galileo's main "crime" was being an absolute bell-end, constantly and publicly, to anyone he saw as a rival. Including a somewhat confused pope.
Even his supporters felt he brought the heresy conviction on himself, and hoped it might shock him into being less of an arse in public.
it didn't.
John Bull
Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history.
As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.
Adam Rutherford
I always wonder how much science would have advanced if it wasn’t held back by religion. #Atheist
