[DarkSavant]

Galileo didn't have the evidence to prove Copernicus' theory, but wanted the Vatican to change their interpretation anyways. A greak book on it was "The Sleepwalkers" by Arthur Koestler

[jcb8199]

Precisely--which is why he got in trouble for it. He was teaching as FACT that which was not, at that time, sufficiently proven as fact.

And he was wrong, to a degree, too. The Sun isn't the center of the Universe, it's the center of the solar system--another idea that suffered the advent of *more information*.

[PatrickHenry]

Galileo didn't have the evidence to prove Copernicus' theory, but wanted the Vatican to change their interpretation anyways. A greak book on it was "The Sleepwalkers" by Arthur Koestler

But he did. A prediction of the Copernicus theory was that Venus would be ween to go through phases. This was visible with Galileo's telescope.

[js1138]

Galileo didn't have the evidence to prove Copernicus' theory, but wanted the Vatican to change their interpretation anyways.

Ormaybe he just wanted to publish his ideas without being arrested and threatened with torture.