[nme01]

Good remark. Many people believe that Galileo was burned but it’s simply not true (I don’t even know where it comes from).

IIRC the most serious punishment he got was a home-arrest which he got after being rude to pope (which he was after he was forbidden to state his hypothesis as fact).

Also as a side note: Galileo didn’t form a hypothesis good enough as it predicted planets’ movements poorly. It was Kepler who formed much more accurate model and it got accepted by the Church.

There are also some other misbelieves about the Church like that they forbidden spreading the theory of evolution (while in fact they forbade priests to criticize it openly).

[Yoofie]

If someone wants to get better informed about such common myths like you mentioned, what books or material should I read?