Question on Galileo without Elsevier

[Richard Feinman <RFeinman@downstate.edu>]

If turned down by a scholarly journal, would Galileo have had any 
legal recourse to get a paper published?

If his lawyer could demonstrate that the scientific standards of 
his work were commensurate in quality with other papers published 
in a particular journal, could he argue that only pressure from 
the church or even sincere opposition because of contradiction of 
church doctrine, was keeping him from being published?

Does anybody know if there is any legal recourse for a privately 
owned journal?

Does a journal's editor have a completely free hand?

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