I was under the impression that few historians actually agree with the story of Galileo being imprisoned for pushing Heliocentricity. I recall reading that by t

I was under the impression that few historians actually agree with the story of Galileo being imprisoned for pushing Heliocentricity. I recall reading that by that point heliocentrism wasn’t controversial and Galileo’s house arrest came as a result of a combination of errors in his own work and his personal conflicts with the pope. What’s more, I believe I’ve read that most of the “conflict” between religion and science has been overblown. The environment of opposition we sometimes see today didn’t really begin to manifest itself until the 19th and 20th centuries.