Interestingly, it has been argued that the Galileo affair was actually a case of him "being right for the wrong reasons". Obviously there was also a lot of poli

Interestingly, it has been argued that the Galileo affair was actually a case of him "being right for the wrong reasons". Obviously there was also a lot of politics involved, but the Vatican did have some of the best astronomers of the time on their pay roll - and Galileo's arguments failed to convince them on a scientific level, not primarily a religious one.