Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which was published in 1632 to great popularity. Was an account of conversations between a Copernican scientist, Salviati, an impartial and witty scholar named Sagredo, and a ponderous Aristotelian named Simplicio, who employed stock arguments in support of geocentricity, and was depicted in the book as being an intellectually inept fool.