[mike182d]

Try Copernicus and Galileo for starters.

Galileo's helio-centric theory was loaded with mathmatical errors (i.e. he believed that the orbits of the planets were perfectly elliptical per Aristotelian philosophy). When the Church was unwilling to embrace his theory entirely because of the many errors initially found in it, Galileo decided to persecute the Church and pronounce it evil and oppressive. Hence the house arrest.

Galileo was about poor politics and had nothing to do with science.