For the recent surge in "Flat Earthers" in GAW, this is for you.
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Galileo wasn't locked up for telling the truth (a truth that truthfully, he could not fully prove by himself). He was locked up for insulting his would-be benefactor - the new pope Urban VIII - in his seminal work. For that, he was only placed under house arrest with fairly loose terms.
I'm pretty sure spherical earth was common knowledge long before Copernicus. See: the experiment of Eratosthenes to calculate its circumference some 1800 years before.