galileo was imprisoned by the Church because he taught that the earth turns round.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
There had been a man by name of galileo, with the first crude telescope he'd made, who first saw the rings of Saturn.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
It is force alone which can produce a change in either velocity or direction of motion; but simple as this law now appears it required the genius of galileo to discover it and of Newton to give it the form in which it is stated above.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock