Galileo wasn’t the father of anything
https://www.academia.edu/170842561/Galileo_wasn_t_the_father_of_anything
Damien Mackey extensively cites, but also comments Thony Christie.
Here is a quote from the end:
I would be tempted to call Galileo primus inter pares – first among equals – within the scientific community of his time, were it not for Kepler, the mathematical visionary who deduced the orbital shapes and laws of motion that guide the movements of the planets. Although he enjoys a far less popular reputation, Kepler contributed more than Galileo to the development of modern science. You might more properly acclaim him as a hero. Most accurately, though, you would recognise science for what it truly is: a group activity of great minds collaborating, challenging and goading each other into the unknown.
Riccioli, a Catholic astronomer and a Jesuit priest, knew of Kepler.
He did accept the correction "ellipses, not circles" but he didn't approve of Kepler being a mechanist or of his Heliocentrism (helio-utro-focalism, putting the Sun in one of two elliptic foci of Earth's supposed orbit)./HGL
PS, for the relevance of above, let's recall, 1633 wasn't primarily about condemning Galileo as a person, it was about condemning Heliocentrism./HGL
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