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Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992
by Finocchiaro, Maurice A.ISBN13:
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10/17/2007
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Summary
In 1633, at the end of one of the most famous trials in history, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for contending that the Earth moves and that the Bible is not a scientific authority. Galileo's condemnation set off a controversy that has acquired a fascinating life of its own and that continues to this day. This absorbing book is the first to examine the entire span of the Galileo affair from his condemnation to his alleged rehabilitation by the Pope in 1992. Filled with primary sources, many translated into English for the first time,Retrying Galileowill acquaint readers with the historical facts of the trial, its aftermath and repercussions, the rich variety of reflections on it throughout history, and the main issues it raises.
Author Biography
Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Table of Contents
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction. The Galileo Affair from Descartes to John Paul II: A Survey of Sources, Facts, and Issues | p. 1 |
| The Condemnation of Galileo (1633) | p. 7 |
| "Vehemently Suspected of Heresy": The Inquisition's Sentence (1633) | p. 7 |
| "I Abjure, Curse, and Detest": Galileo's Abjuration (1633) | p. 15 |
| "Suspended until Corrected": The Index's Anti-Copernican Decree (1616) | p. 16 |
| "Hypothesis versus Assertion": The Index's Correction of Copernicus's Revolutions (1620) | p. 20 |
| Promulgation and Diffusion of the News (1633-1651) | p. 26 |
| Nuncios and Inquisitors: Pope Urban VIII's Orders (July 1633) | p. 26 |
| Professors of Mathematics and Philosophy: Guiducci's Report (August 1633) | p. 28 |
| Printed Posters and Flyers: Carafa's Liege Notification (September 1653) | p. 30 |
| Private Correspondence: Buonamici's Account (July 1633) | p. 33 |
| Newspapers and Books: From Renaudot's Abridgment (1633) to Riccioli's Documems (1651) | p. 57 |
| Emblematic Reactions: Descartes, Peiresc, Galileo's Daughter (1633-1642) | p. 43 |
| The End of the World: Descartes (1633-1644) | p. 43 |
| Sharing Misery: Galileo's Daughter (1633) | p. 51 |
| "The Mirrour of True Nobiliiy & Gentility": Peiresc's Plea (1634-1635) | p. 52 |
| "No Pardon to Innocents": Galileo (1634-1642) | p. 56 |
| Polarizations: Secularism, Liberalism, Fundamentalism (1633-1661) | p. 66 |
| States versus Church | p. 66 |
| "Philosophic Freedom": From Strasbourg (1635-1636) to London (1644-1661) | p. 72 |
| Illegitimate Births, Burials, and Books: Various Retrials to Riccioli's Apology (1651) | p. 79 |
| Compromises: Viviani, Auzout, Leibniz (1654-1704) | p. 86 |
| Galileo "Human Not Divine": Vincenzio Viviani (1654-1693) | p. 87 |
| The Ghost of Bellarmine: Adrien Auzout (1665) | p. 93 |
| Diplomacy Fails: Leihniz (1679-1704) | p. 99 |
| Myth-making or Enlightenment?: Pascal, Voltaire, the Encyclopedia (1657-1777) | p. 108 |
| From Copernicanism to Jansenism: Pascal (1657) and Arnauld (1691) | p. 108 |
| From Prison to Biblical Satire: Un-Enlightened Myths (1709-1773) | p. 111 |
| Whose Ignorance and Prejudice? Voltaire (1728-1770) | p. 115 |
| "Theology's War on Science": D'Alembert and the French Encyclopedia (1751-1777) | p. 120 |
| Incompetence or Enlightenment?: Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) | p. 126 |
| Galileo's Dialogue Unbanned, Sort Of: Toaldo's Edition and Calmet's Introduction (1741-1744) | p. 127 |
| Copernicanism Unbanned, Sort Of: Lazzari's Consultant Report (1757) | p. 138 |
| New Lies, Documents, Myths, Apologies (1758-1797) | p. 154 |
| Dishonorable "Onorato": Gaetani's Forged Letter (1770-1785) | p. 155 |
| Undiplomatic Diplomat: Guicciardini's 1616 Report Published (1773) | p. 158 |
| From One Extreme to Another: Mallet du Pan's Formative Myth (1784-1797) | p. 159 |
| "Spots in the Sun": Tiraboschi's Brilliant Apology (1792-1793) | p. 164 |
| Napoleonic Wars and Trials (1810-1821) | p. 175 |
| The Trial Proceedings to Paris: Napoleon's Publication Plan (1810-1814) | p. 175 |
| Lost and Found: Marini's Efforts (1814-1817) | p. 178 |
| The Napoleonic Transladons; Delambre's Finding (1820) | p. 181 |
| Primary versus Accessory Causes: Venturi's Explanation (1820) | p. 184 |
| Galileo's Confession: The Inquisition's Trial Summary Revealed (1821) | p. 190 |
| The Inquisition on Galileo's Side?: The Settele Affair (1820) and Beyond (1835) | p. 193 |
| More Unbanning of Copernicanism (1820-1835) | p. 194 |
| Anti-Copernican Insubordination: Olivieri's Official Summary (1820) | p. 198 |
| Solomonic Injustice: 1820 versus 1616 | p. 218 |
| Varieties of Torture: Demythologizing Galileo's Trial? (1835-1867) | p. 222 |
| "Martyr of Science"? Victim of Torture? Brewster and Libri (1835-1841) | p. 223 |
| Immoral Disobedience? Dublin's Cooper and Cincinnati's J. Q. Adams (1838-1844) | p. 226 |
| Torturing People versus Torturing Texts: Marini's Semi-Official Apologia (1850) | p. 230 |
| "Moral Torture"? Antihero?: Biot's and Chasles's Circumstantialism (1858-1867) | p. 233 |
| Inquisition Right and Wrong? Madden's Tortured Thinking (1863) | p. 237 |
| A Miscarriage of Justice?: The Documentation of Impropriety (1867-1879) | p. 241 |
| A Legal Impropriety: Wohlwill's Radical Revisionism (1870) | p. 242 |
| Independent Evidence: Gherardi's Inquisition Minutes (1870) | p. 246 |
| Plea Bargaining out of Court: Commissary Maculano's 1633 Letter Published (1875) | p. 249 |
| Tampering with the Evidence: Scartazzini on Paper Shuffling (1877-1878) | p. 251 |
| Inaccurate but Not Forged Documents: Gebler's Balanced Synthesis (1879) | p. 255 |
| Galileo Right Again, Wrong Again: Hermeneutics, Epistemology, "Heresy" (1866-1928) | p. 259 |
| Cultural Penetration and Consolidadon (1866-1928) | p. 259 |
| Galileo Theologically Right: Leo XIII's Encyclical Providentissimus Deus (1893) | p. 263 |
| Blaming "Realism": Duhem's Epistemological Explanation (1908) | p. 266 |
| Muller's Anti-Galilean Synthesis and Garzend's Un-Apologetic Concept of Heresy (1909-1912) | p. 269 |
| A Catholic Hero: Tricentennial Rehabilitation (1941-1947) | p. 275 |
| "Harmony of Science and Religion": Gemelli Reverses Traditional View (1942) | p. 275 |
| A Model of Religious Faith: Paschini's Preview (1943) | p. 280 |
| A Noble Intellectual Sacrifice: Soccorsi Justifies Galileo's Retraction (1947) | p. 284 |
| Secular Indictments: Brecht's Atomic Bomb and Koestler's Two Cultures (1947-1959) | p. 295 |
| Galileo's Social Betrayal: Brecht's Historical Fiction (1947/1955) | p. 296 |
| Galileo's Blame for "Science versus Religion": Koestler's Fictional History (1959) | p. 306 |
| History on Trial: The Paschini Affair (1941-1979) | p. 318 |
| Silencing a Historian: Paschini's Letters (1941-1946) | p. 318 |
| "Rehabilitating" a Historian: The Pontifical Academy's Edition of Paschini's Galileo (1964) | p. 326 |
| Adulterating Historiography: Bertolla's Recovery of the Genuine Galileo (1978) | p. 330 |
| More "Rehabilitation": Pope John Paul II (1979-1992) | p. 338 |
| Admitting Wrongs versus Admitting Mistakes: The Einstein Centennial Speech (1979) | p. 338 |
| Rethinking versus Retrying Galileo: The Vatican Study Commission (1981-1992) | p. 343 |
| The "Right to Make Mistakes": Brandmuller's New Apology (1982/1992) | p. 348 |
| Undoing a Rehabilitation: Poupard's Commission Report (1992) | p. 350 |
| Closing a "Case": The Pope's Complexity Conference Speech (1992) | p. 353 |
| Epilogue: Unfinished Business | p. 359 |
| Notes | p. 367 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 429 |
| Index | p. 467 |
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