> The church still harassed scientists in the years to come, notably Galileo Galilei. This is kind of a popular oversimplification of what was likely to be a v

> The church still harassed scientists in the years to come, notably Galileo Galilei. This is kind of a popular oversimplification of what was likely to be a very personal and political matter at least as much as it was a matter of heresy, and it absolutely was not the case that the church held a simple antagonism toward science. Galileo worked for and published with the explicit permission of Pope Urban VIII initially.