I like this statement that makes him sound like a early version of Carl Sagan ...
"Unlike other scientific tomes of its time, which were written in Latin and addressed a scholarly audience, the Dialogue spoke in Italian to an underserved public of intelligent, curious laymen who couldn't afford a university education. Galileo's direct appeal to this mass market fanned the church's anxieties over the message his Dialogue delivered."
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