Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction. the galileo affair from descartes to john paul ii: a survey of sources, facts, and issues -- 1. The Condemnation of Galileo (1633) -- 2. Promulgation and Diffusion of the News (1633-1651) -- 3. Emblematic Reactions: Descartes, Peiresc, Galileo's Daughter (1633-1642) -- 4. Polarizations: Secularism, Liberalism, Fundamentalism (1633-1661) -- 5. Compromises: Viviani, Auzout, Leibniz (1654-1704) -- 6. Myth-making or Enlightenment? Pascal, Voltaire, the Encyclopedia (1657-1777) -- 7. Incompetence or Enlightenment? Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) -- 8. New Lies, Documents, Myths, Apologies (1758-1797) -- 9. Napoleonic Wars and Trials (1810-1821) -- 10. The Inquisition on Galileo's Side? The Settele Affair (1820) and Beyond (1835) -- 11. Varieties of Torture: Demythologizing Galileo's Trial? (1835-1867) -- 12. A Miscarriage of Justice? The Documentation of Impropriety (1867-1879) -- 13. Galileo Right Again, Wrong Again: Hermeneutics, Epistemology, "Heresy" (1866-1928) -- 14. A Catholic Hero: Tricentennial Rehabilitation (1941-1947) -- 15. Secular Indictments: Brecht's Atomic Bomb and Koestler's Two Cultures (1947-1959) -- 16. History on Trial: The Paschini Affair (1941-1979) -- 17. |