[MD] Galileo and the church

[John Carl]

Just finished an interesting section in Wallace's book on meditation.
Galileo wasn't persecuted by the church men and priests and such.  According
to this author, he was persecuted by the academics - all the intellectuals
in power, who had a whole system built up on false metaphysical assumptions
and everything in its aristotleian accurate place, and this one lone guy
threatens their whole power structure.    The enemy of science was not the
church, it was the academy.

At least according to this scholar that Marsha and I are reading.