I have no particular love of the Catholics but as a point of history it wasn't the heliocentrism that saw Galileo on trial over a book he was asked by the Churc

I have no particular love of the Catholics but as a point of history it wasn't the heliocentrism that saw Galileo on trial over a book he was asked by the Church to write, a book that drew heavily on data gathered by other Church sponsered observers of the cosmos. His crime was "mocking the Pope" (who he (IIRC) got on quite well with earlier in time) by casting him as a useful idiot asking dumb questions. His trial was pushed not by the Pope (again, IIRC) but by others who he had savagely mocked in other works who saw their chance to exact revenge. This is more a tale of the curmudgeonly partial outsider within a highly political top heavy bureaucracy falling foul of ladder climbers with a personal axe to grind.