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I thought what got him in trouble with his friend, Pope Urban, were rumors that he put quotes from from him in the mouth of the character "simpleton", thus insulting and embarrassing him.



It wasn't a rumor - that was the way the dialog went in a book he wrote.

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Though some in the church might have taught his theories, in the end the Church did ban the Dialogue for 200+ years and "officially" banned all his books - though I don't think they took it as seriously as it sounds..



Someone forgot to tell the Jesuits in that case.

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Certainly there were those in the Church who took this ban and others as the Church's opposition to those theories.



Galileo had lots of enemies - he was good at that - and many others disliked his theories. Luckily for Galileo the Pope was a fan of Galileo and that kept him from any real trouble, even when Galileo asked for it (repeated perjury at his trial was ignored by the Inquisition in spite of their having written proof).

Think of Galileo as a slightly less bright version of Isaac Newton, another genius we're lucky to have never had to deal with in person.
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