Can you imagine what it must have been like to be Galileo, a man who thoughts and idea's went against what main stream society believed. To be condemned for your teaching, ordered to desist teaching your philosophy, as it went against the teaching of the church. How that must have felt to be squashed by your friend and thought to be allie. Yet in the end, all that truly matter was the authority of the church, and the fear of change. Let the status quo remain...
He had created this new device that allowed him to see the heavenly bodies like no one else had ever seen before. The "Microscope" help confirmed the ideas that Copernican had written in his book on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies. The sun is the center of the universe, and the earth and heavenly bodies move around the sun.
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it is also interesting to understand that only a matter of a few years later was Galileo's work really considered and explored by others of the field. After all it was not that long before they proved him right
Galileo's story is quite remarkable really, he was definitely a man with a passion. I admire his vision and ability to think outside of the normal thought process. He could very well have been reserved in his research because of social pressure to lay low with new ideas, in particular those ideas that would change everyones thinking about the world they live in.
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