It's funny because heliocentrism wasn't even a charge for the stakes, much less excommunication. Galileo's case was more because he was a complete asshole, directly dissing power figures and abusing his friends' authority within the church. Of course, nowadays schools don't really teach the full story
Yes, I was surprised, I think it was in the podcast "Our Fake Story" that I first heard this.
Yes, at times there was church persecution, but the whole "Church bad, Church against science" was a myth created in modern times.
Seriously? I didn't know that.
Yeah... that would put you on the stake.
Worse, he was an asshole with this friends, including some that where trying to protect him even.
One of them was... the Pope.
And yes, where is Yasuke?
He must be in Japan, will the story just assume that because the events are playing a bit differently he wasn't noticed?