Everyone knows the story of how Galileo was persecuted by…

Galileo was beaten, tortured, excommunicated, and thrown in jail for his belief that the earth moved around the sun. One problem: none of that is true.

Everyone knows the story of how Galileo was persecuted by the church: after inventing the telescope, Galileo turns the lenses to the stars and proves that the earth revolves around the sun and not …