Galileo's Mistake
Subtitle: A New Look At the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: July 16, 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781559706841
Subjects: Philosophy Of Science; Science; Italy; Trials, litigation, etc; Religion And Science; Science/Mathematics; Religion & Science; Philosophy; Christianity - History - Catholic; History; Science / General; General; 1564-1642; 17th century; Galilei, Galileo,
Table of contents: title: Overture; title: Pope Paul V; title: A time of crisis; title: Doctrinal revolutions; title: A dialogue; title: Science's motives; title: On curiosity; title: A negotiation; title: Galileo the Aquarian; title: Ptolemy's world; title: Comets and supernova; title: Kepler's genius; title: The uses of hypotheses; title: Young Galileo; title: The studies in motion; title: The experimental method; title: Number and beauty; title: Pythagoreans and the reduction of quality to quantity; title: Ferrara and Copernicus; title: The reluctant revolutionary; title: Challenging Aristotle; title: A stimulating meeting; title: The Stagirite; title: The primacy of mind; title: The good; title: Deductive science; title: Aristotle's influence; title: A question of infinity; title: Copernican caution; title: Saving the appearances; title: The Padua years; title: The telescopic discoveries; title: The lure of the Medici-- The Jesuits; title: Rumors of reaction; title: In the Medician court; title: The phases of Venus; title: Sunspot disputes; title: Triumph in Rome; title: Cardinal Bellarmine; title: Bruno's heresy; title: An infinite universe; title: Aristotle revisited; title: The struggles of Aquinas; title: The return of Pythagoras; title: Storm warnings; title: Cardinal Barberini; title: The conflict is joined : "Letter to Christina"; title: Bellarmine's response; title: Under attack; title: A dangerous mission; title: Barberini's argument; title: Defeat in Rome; title: The warning; title: A dialogue in Venice; title: Science's successes; title: The nature of knowledge; title: Further dialogue in Venice; title: Science and faith; title: Faith and reality; title: The nature of progress; title: On the Lido; title: The problem of objectivity; title: Reasoning's recursiveness; title: The map and the territory; title: An unfortunate outburst; title: At Santa Maria Maggiore; title: Galileo's conservatism; title: Kepler's heterodoxy; title: A remarkable fresco; title: A scientific testament; title: Models of the world; title: The paradox of empiricism; title: Pope Urban VIII; title: Intimations of change; title: Galileo's Dialogue; title: The suppression; title: A summons from the Inquisition; title: An enigmatic Pope; title: A mass in St. Peter's; title: A chance encounter; title: A remarkable city; title: History's parochialism; title: An uncomplicated man; title: The motives of pontiffs; title: A dialogue in Vatican City; title: Galileo's rehabilitation; title: "Learned ignorance"; title: The puzzle of the abjuration; title: The final journey to Rome; title: The Inquisition; title: The denial; title: The confession; title: The sentence; title: The judgment and abjuration; title: The unspoken issues; title: The aftermath; title: Return to Arcetri; title: Discourses on Two New Sciences; title: A visit from Hobbes; title: Milton's tribute; title: On the road to Florence; title: Galileo's tomb; title: Human happiness; title: Science and number; title: Limits to scientific knowledge; title: An unfinished journey; title: Appendix : On the question of Galileo's "Perjury"