Galileo Galilei found himself facing the Inquisition in the early 17th century because of what his astronomical observations revealed about the world. The idea that the Earth moved around the Sun, though, had first been proposed nearly a century earlier, and other astronomers had made similar observations without facing the wrath of religious authorities. What does generational theory suggest was different for Galileo?

 

A chart with the different people involved and the years of their main contributions can be found on my blog at

http://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/12/heliocentrism.html