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Ashes can't recant.
"...The Catholic church, threatened by this, had him arrested and burned at the stake until he recanted his findings...."
There is no historical document that asserts that Galileo was ever burned at the stake, even partially. His inquisition was held in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which is about half a block from the Pantheon. There's a lovely Michelangelo statue of Jesus on the Altar, and an obelisk on the back of an elephant done by Bernini out front. Catholics don't as a rule light bonfires to roast even heretics inside of a church. It wasn't the theory of heliocentricity that put Galileo's butt in a crack, it was his preaching that heliocentricity was a fact that contradicted the Bible. He'd have got by fine, as Copernicus did, if he just had taught that it was scientific "theory" and refrained from insisting that it was a "fact" that contradicted the divinity of the Bible.