Dr. Thomas Madden

And honestly, they gave him a number of warnings.

They said, just stay out of the theology.

Just focus on science.

And he just wouldn't.

And then finally, in fact, the Pope, Pope Urban VIII, gave him a chance and said, look, why don't you publish a fair-minded view of both sides of this issue, of whether this earth is in the center of the universe or the sun is, and give a pro and con.

so that people can fairly decide.

And so he wrote the book and he treated everyone who held that the earth was at the center.

In fact, the person who argues for it is called Simplicius or Simpleton.

And then he also insulted, very clearly insulted everyone that he didn't like in Rome, including the Pope.

How did he do that?

He just made him look like a buffoon.

Yeah, he made him a character.

They made all of them characters in this.

They made them buffoons.

So at that point, he had lost his friends.

Even still, the Inquisition did not convict him of heresy.

They basically convict him of what they called vehement suspicion, which meant that he just had to spend time in his very lavish villa for the rest of his life.

Yes, rather.

But as I say, he got into trouble not because of science.

In fact, when you think about it, 50 years before Galileo, the Catholic Church had refigured the calendar.