But Galileo published this book in Italian. The reason was that he was no longer willing to bend over backwards to convince scholars and philosophers--he wanted to make an appeal to the public at large. But the earth-centric view was a tenet of the church, and so the pope felt that Galileo was publicly making enemies with the church.
但是伽利略這本《兩大世界體系間的對話》卻是用義大利文寫的，理由是伽利略已不願再為說服學者和哲學家費神，寧願訴諸社會大眾，而地球中心說乃是教會的教義之一，天主教教皇因此覺得伽利略是公開和教會為敵。