[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In what way was Galileo "right"? There is no coherent Galilean model of planetary motion. Read Kostler's The Sleepwalkers, great read. Galileo was a strident and hamfisted advocate of a theory he could not explain, did not understand and that is actually less useful for predicting observations than the one it proposed to replace. He was absolutely, demonstrably wrong about tides. If he had not provoked an unnecessary and pointless fight with the Vatican, he would have been a minor footnote in history.

BTW, Martin Luther was adamantly opposed to heliocentricism (he had read some early papers by Copernicus, prior to the release of De Revolutionibus) and condemned it as heresy. Copernicus was a Roman Catholic Cannon, about equal in rank to a Monsiegnor. The Roman Church was indifferent to heliocentricism, until Galileo made a fuss about it and had De Revolutionibus added to the Index. Again, like Akin on abortion, Galileo's hamfisted proclamations gave the geocentricists power they never would have had otherwise.

[BipolarBob]

You read a lot of long winded wordy books (Catholic propaganda) that ignore the facts. You try to prove Galileo was wrong (even though he was right) and the church was right (even though they were wrong). I don’t care if Galileo could fully understand and precisely explain the planetary motions. He was still right. Now go read up and see if the sky is blue or it just looks that way because of the color.