""My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the
principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the
stubbornness of an asp and d
o not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth.
[9]"
But we know the Priests looked and agreed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
"Galileo's championing of
heliocentrism and
Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to either
geocentrism or the
Tychonic system.
[4] He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed
stellar parallax.....
.....Galileo later defended his views in
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack Pope
Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the
Jesuits,
who had both supported Galileo up until this point......"
One might say in fact he brought it upon himself by being flippant....... Up until he insulted the Pope, the Pope had been supporting him.....