Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 / Maurice A. Finocchiaro.
Finocchiaro, Maurice A., 1942-
2005
QB36.G2 F56 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 / Maurice A. Finocchiaro.
Author Finocchiaro, Maurice A., 1942-
ISBN 0520242610 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Language English
Description xii, 485 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number QB36.G2 F56 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 520/.92
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-466) and index.
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The condemnation of Galileo (1633)
Promulgation and diffusion of the news (1633-1651)
Emblematic reactions: Descartes, Peiresc, Galileo's daughter (1633-1642)
Secularism, liberalism, fundamentalism (1633-1661)
Compromises: Viviani, Auzout, Leibniz (1654-1704)
Myth-making or enlightenment? Pascal, Voltaire, the Encyclopedia (1657-1777)
Incompetence or enlightenment? Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758)
New lies, documents, myths, apologies (1758-1797)
Napoleonic wars and trials (1810-1821)
The inquisition on Galileo's side? The Settele affairs (1820) and beyond (1835)
Varieties of torture: Demythologizing Galileo's trial? (1835-1867)
A miscarriage of justice? The documentation of impropriety (1867-1879)
Galileo right again, wrong again: Hermeneutics, epistemology, "Heresy" (1866-1928)
A catholic hero: tricentennial rehabilitation (1941-1947)
Secular indictments: Brecht's atomic bomb and Koestler's two cultures (1947-1959)
History on trial: the Paschini Affair (1941-1979)
More "rehabilitation": Pope John Paul II (1979-1992).

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