I think that even if literature does not actually contribute original things to the world, reinforcement still has incredible value. We learn things through reinforcement so, it would still be just as valuable if it did manage to convince people of a point which was unoriginal but still valuable. Even if Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo didn't actually contribute towards science, It did, as I mentioned in my previous post, cause many people to give up geocentric views for heliocentric views. It sort of reinforced the ideas from Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. This sort of reinforcement is very important to out human history and understanding; creating many works of literature to reinforce some moral point or truth about the world, helps to spread the message to a large number of people around the world. People who did not read Copernicus' book may have read Galileo's instead.
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