num_pages: 36
description: The author examines the conclusions of the Catholic Church's commission to study Galileo in the context of the Ptolemaic-Copernican controversy. The commission declared that the Galileo case has been a sort of myth in which the image fabricated out of the events was far removed from reality.
language: English
title: Galileo and the Catholic Church: A Critique of the "Closure" of the Galileo Commission's Work
titlecomplete: Galileo and the Catholic Church: A Critique of the "Closure" of the Galileo Commission's Work (FROM VATICAN OBSERVA)
publisher: University of Notre Dame Press