[meowmeow]

Most of the civilized world once thought the world was flat. Gallileo spent time under house arrest for suggesting otherwise...

Not true. Do your homework.

[Dead Corpse]

He wrote Two New Sciences while under house arrest after the Inquisition found him a heretic.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ewKMpRsF4Y8C&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=KBKSyHOLzZAC&pg=PA96#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei