Add to ORKGThe 17th-century controversy between Galileo and the Vatican is examined. Fifteen theses are advanced, with supporting evidence, to show that the Galileo affair cannot serve as an argument for any position on the relation of religion and science. Contrary to legend, both Galileo and the Copernican system were well regarded by Church officials. Galileo was the victim of his own arrogance, the envy of his colleagues, and the politics of Pope Urban VIII. He was not accused of criticising the Bible, but disobeying a papal decree
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 - the same year that Shakespeare was born and Michelangelo died. Fr...
In 1633, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for defending Copernicus’s hypothesis of the earth’s moti...
In his 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, Galileo argues for a “principle of li...
This paper analyses the conflict between science and religion related to the Galileo affair. By stud...
The legend of Galileo’s encounter with the Inquisition is one of the constitutive myths of modernity...
For more than 30 years, historians have rejected what they call the ‘warfare thesis’ – the idea that...
Was Galileo’s clash with the Church about science or about legal procedures that he had apparently n...
he life and work of the early 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei have been pr...
During the years from 1616 (when the Decree prohibiting two Copernican propositions was issued by t...
This book analyzes the construction and the impact of Galileo Galilei’s fame. Galileo Galilei (1564-...
The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo is that of Science and Reason persec...
Far from egalitarian, Galileo’s epistemology asserts an uncompromising hierarchy between science and...
When studying the controversy prevailing between Galileo and the Jesuits over the comets of 1618, hi...
Maurice Finocchiaro considers the trial of Galileo by the Roman Inquisition in 1633, weighing up the...
As a result of the impressive mass of studies on Early Modern Rome edited in the past three decades,...
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 - the same year that Shakespeare was born and Michelangelo died. Fr...
In 1633, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for defending Copernicus’s hypothesis of the earth’s moti...
In his 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, Galileo argues for a “principle of li...
This paper analyses the conflict between science and religion related to the Galileo affair. By stud...
The legend of Galileo’s encounter with the Inquisition is one of the constitutive myths of modernity...
For more than 30 years, historians have rejected what they call the ‘warfare thesis’ – the idea that...
Was Galileo’s clash with the Church about science or about legal procedures that he had apparently n...
he life and work of the early 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei have been pr...
During the years from 1616 (when the Decree prohibiting two Copernican propositions was issued by t...
This book analyzes the construction and the impact of Galileo Galilei’s fame. Galileo Galilei (1564-...
The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo is that of Science and Reason persec...
Far from egalitarian, Galileo’s epistemology asserts an uncompromising hierarchy between science and...
When studying the controversy prevailing between Galileo and the Jesuits over the comets of 1618, hi...
Maurice Finocchiaro considers the trial of Galileo by the Roman Inquisition in 1633, weighing up the...
As a result of the impressive mass of studies on Early Modern Rome edited in the past three decades,...
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 - the same year that Shakespeare was born and Michelangelo died. Fr...
In 1633, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for defending Copernicus’s hypothesis of the earth’s moti...
In his 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, Galileo argues for a “principle of li...