Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…It seems that for Hardy, eager to be more ‘sincere’ than what decorum and ‘the censorship of prudery’ permitted, short stories and poems were literary forms that allowed more elbow room than novels: ‘If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone’.…”
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Copernicus and Copernicans: Galileo, Kepler, Bruno by Ünsal Çimen

“…He also claimed that the universe was finite and that no intelligent life existed on other planets. Galileo and Kepler shared these claims; therefore, they deserve to be called Copernicans. …”
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