I think that Galileo’s Dialogue is a cleverly crafted argument. I think he was trying to prove the point that all this stuff about the earth, planet, and stars isn’t that complicated and that people who aren’t scientists should be able to understand it. To get his point across, Galileo makes has argument in the form of a dialogue. By doing this, he is able to be completely in control of how his facts and arguments are presented. He makes the arguments, the defenses, and the oppositions.

Doing this made such information available to the more common person, because it was presented as a dialogue, not a fancy scientific paper. It’s not like he hasn’t presented ideas about astronomy before. He just reforms his way of presenting it, and thus succeeds in making his point. Because a vast majority of the people of the time were convinced the Earth was not in motion, he had to appeal to more than just the few highly educated. By using the characters in his dialogue, he is able to convince more people that just because a theory is seen as true, that doesn’t make it unchangeable. Galileo was opening people’s minds to the possibility that their well accepted truths were incorrect.