An edition of Galileo's Mistake
(2001)
Galileo's Mistake
A New Look At the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church
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by Wade Rowland
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What is truth and how can we know it? This is the question that lies at the heart of the momentous conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Roman Catholic Church. In his provocative reexamination of one of the turning points in the history of science and thought, Wade Rowland demonstrates that Galileo's mistake was to insist that science -- and only science -- provides the truth about reality. In asserting the primacy of science in the territory of truth, Galileo strayed from purely scientific inquiry into the theological realm, an act that put him squarely on the warpath with the Church. The outcome would change the world. - Back cover.
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Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church
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Galileo's Mistake: The Archaeology of a Myth
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Table of Contents
Overture
Pope Paul V
A time of crisis
Doctrinal revolutions
A dialogue
Science's motives
On curiosity
A negotiation
Galileo the Aquarian
Ptolemy's world
Comets and supernova
Kepler's genius
The uses of hypotheses
Young Galileo
The studies in motion
The experimental method
Number and beauty
Pythagoreans and the reduction of quality to quantity
Ferrara and Copernicus
The reluctant revolutionary
Challenging Aristotle
A stimulating meeting
The Stagirite
The primacy of mind
The good
Deductive science
Aristotle's influence
A question of infinity
Copernican caution
Saving the appearances
The Padua years
The telescopic discoveries
The lure of the Medici-- The Jesuits
Rumors of reaction
In the Medician court
The phases of Venus
Sunspot disputes
Triumph in Rome
Cardinal Bellarmine
Bruno's heresy
An infinite universe
Aristotle revisited
The struggles of Aquinas
The return of Pythagoras
Storm warnings
Cardinal Barberini
The conflict is joined : "Letter to Christina"
Bellarmine's response
Under attack
A dangerous mission
Barberini's argument
Defeat in Rome
The warning
A dialogue in Venice
Science's successes
The nature of knowledge
Further dialogue in Venice
Science and faith
Faith and reality
The nature of progress
On the Lido
The problem of objectivity
Reasoning's recursiveness
The map and the territory
An unfortunate outburst
At Santa Maria Maggiore
Galileo's conservatism
Kepler's heterodoxy
A remarkable fresco
A scientific testament
Models of the world
The paradox of empiricism
Pope Urban VIII
Intimations of change
Galileo's Dialogue
The suppression
A summons from the Inquisition
An enigmatic Pope
A mass in St. Peter's
A chance encounter
A remarkable city
History's parochialism
An uncomplicated man
The motives of pontiffs
A dialogue in Vatican City
Galileo's rehabilitation
"Learned ignorance"
The puzzle of the abjuration
The final journey to Rome
The Inquisition
The denial
The confession
The sentence
The judgment and abjuration
The unspoken issues
The aftermath
Return to Arcetri
Discourses on Two New Sciences
A visit from Hobbes
Milton's tribute
On the road to Florence
Galileo's tomb
Human happiness
Science and number
Limits to scientific knowledge
An unfinished journey
Appendix : On the question of Galileo's "Perjury"
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