The Church is not opposed to science

It is opposed to false interpretations and the misuse of science. The Church did not reject other elements of Galileo’s scientific research (as opposed to his Scriptural exegesis):

• Improvement of the telescope (1609): optics.

• Telescopic discoveries (1610).

• Experiments with motion:

• uniform acceleration of falling
• bodies, inertia, parabolic
• trajectories, etc.

• Belief that mathematics is the language of science (The Assayer, 1623, dedicated to Pope Urban VII (Barberini!).