Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 / Maurice A. Finocchiaro.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

xii, 485 pages ; 24 cm

The condemnation of Galileo (1633) -- Promulgation and diffusion of the news (1633-1651) -- Emblematic reactions: Descartes, Peiresc, Galileo's daughter (1633-1642) -- Secularism, liberalism, fundamentalism (1633-1661) -- Compromises: Viviani, Auzout, Leibniz (1654-1704) -- Myth-making or enlightenment? Pascal, Voltaire, the Encyclopedia (1657-1777) -- Incompetence or enlightenment? Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) -- New lies, documents, myths, apologies (1758-1797) -- Napoleonic wars and trials (1810-1821) -- The inquisition on Galileo's side? The Settele affairs (1820) and beyond (1835) -- Varieties of torture: Demythologizing Galileo's trial? (1835-1867) -- A miscarriage of justice? The documentation of impropriety (1867-1879) -- Galileo right again, wrong again: Hermeneutics, epistemology, "Heresy" (1866-1928) -- A catholic hero: tricentennial rehabilitation (1941-1947) -- Secular indictments: Brecht's atomic bomb and Koestler's two cultures (1947-1959) -- History on trial: the Paschini Affair (1941-1979) -- More "rehabilitation": Pope John Paul II (1979-1992).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-466) and index.