[jethropalerobber]

Galileo was never put on a rack, tortured, or even jailed.

you're quite right and thanks for the correction - he was in fact only threatened with these things until he recanted.

[XBob]

After the suppression of Copernican theory occasioned by the ecclesiastical trial of Galileo in 1633, some Jesuit philosophers remained secret followers of Copernicus.