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The only thing he did that could be counted as being a dick about it was, when writing his book "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" the person he quoted for the defense of geocentric Aristotelian system was Simpilicus, who was an idiot, and whether by accident or on purpose, part of the book quoted the pope as saying things Simplicus had said, which made the pope sound like an idiot same as Simpilicus. And the church would not have locked him in his house for the last ten years of his life and put all of his books on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum just because he was a dick. Beethoven was a HUGE dick, nobody ever locked him in his house.