For us, the theory was clearly wrong, Galileo should have realized it, and other evidence (for heliocentricity) looks better in hindsight.

Few people have developed entire scientific fields of pursuit or theories which have so changed the course of human history and our understanding of the universe.He identified evidence for and argued that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the earth, but that the earth revolves around the sun — the Copernican heliocentric model. My guess is that he was attracted by the simplicity and elegance of the Copernican model, Which I think is perfectly reasonable. He was persecuted due to his questioning of the Catholic church orthodoxy and other astronomers of the time, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest after trial during the Inquisition.

With hidden agendas emerging from the shadows and help materializing from the most unexpected sources, loyalties are put to the ultimate test. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella et al. Reminder: the existence of counterexamples does not nullify the fact that the Galileo gambit is, by all means, a fallacy. In fact, before Newton (and curiously the vortex theorists) none of the extant tidal theories explained the two tides per day.With a no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, the author debunks these extraordinary nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons we find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing.