Galileo might be influenced by all that paperwork, give up and go home...
Actually he did - Galileo got so hacked off and threatened by the church's views on his (entirely accurate) deduction that the earth went around the sun, and the moon around the earth, that he retired to a small island and did materials research, which seemed pretty safe and uncontentious.
Much of the principles we still use for aircraft structural analysis were determined by Galileo, because it got him away from all the paperwork and politics that his astronomy was causing.
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