One of the standard stories that gets wheeled out every time that some ahistorical fan of Galileo wishes to prove that the rejection of the heliocentric hypothesis at the beginning of the seventeenth century was purely based on dogmatic religious ignorance and had no objective basis in fact is the case of the professor of philosophy who refused to even look through Galileo’s telescope, rejecting his astronomical findings out of hand. Most authors retelling the story[1] completely ignore the context and even ignore the fact that Cremonini had actually looked through telescopes and those that mention his claim that it made him dizzy do so as if Cremonini was trying to ridicule the telescope and its users.