>>> I submit that, like the Jesuit astronomers declining to look through Galileo’s telescope Completely as an aside, from what I've read, the Catholic astronom

>>> I submit that, like the Jesuit astronomers declining to look through Galileo’s telescope Completely as an aside, from what I've read, the Catholic astronomers did look through Galileo's scope, and confirmed his observational evidence. They were willing to accept a model of Tycho Brahe, in which the sun goes around the earth and the planets go around the sun. Not needing to look through the scope, to know the truth, was introduced as a hypothetical in arguments. And there were Churchmen who were using the controversy to push the Church towards what we might call a more "conservative" position today. But amongst intellectuals, the debate was over whether the evidence supported the heliocentric theory or not.