{{Short description|17th-century conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Roman Catholic Church}}
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[[File:Galileo before the Holy Office - Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, 1847.png|upright=1.35|thumb|''Galileo before the Holy Office'', a 19th-century painting by [[Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury]]]]
The '''Galileo affair''' was an early 17th century political, religious, and scientific controversy regarding the astronomer [[Galileo Galilei]]'s defence of [[heliocentrism]], the idea that the [[Earth]] revolves around the [[Sun]]. It pitted supporters and opponents of Galileo within both the [[Catholic Church]] and academia against each other through two phases: an interrogation and condemnation of Galileo's ideas by a panel of the [[Roman Inquisition]] in 1616, and a second trial in 1632 which led to Galileo's [[house arrest]] and a ban on his books.[Blackwell ([[#Reference-Blackwell-1991|1991]], p. 2). Blackwell ([[#Reference-Blackwell-1991|1991]], p. 50) dates the start of the Galileo affair to 1610. Finocchiaro ([[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1989|1989]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=wKCZFJuMCaQC&pg=PA1 p. 1]) puts it a few years later, in 1613.]
In 1610, Galileo published his ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' (''Starry Messenger'') describing the observations that he had made with his new, much stronger [[telescope]], amongst them the [[Galilean moons]] of [[Jupiter]]. With these observations and additional observations that followed, such as the [[phases of Venus]], he promoted the heliocentric theory of [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] published in ''[[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium]]'' in 1543. Galileo's opinions were met with opposition within the Catholic Church, and in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be both scientifically indefensible and heretical. Galileo went on to propose a theory of [[Discourse on the Tides|tides]] in 1616, and of [[Discourse on Comets|comets]] in 1619; he argued (incorrectly) that the tides were evidence for the motion of the Earth.
In 1632, Galileo published his ''[[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems]]'', which defended heliocentrism while describing geocentrists as "simpletons". Responding to mounting controversy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633 and found him "vehemently suspect of [[heresy]]", sentencing him to house arrest.[{{cite web |title=Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) (1568–1644) |url=http://galileo.rice.edu/gal/urban.html |website=The Galileo Project |publisher=Rice University |quote=Upon Barberini's ascendance of the papal throne, in 1623, Galileo came to Rome and had six interviews with the new Pope. It was at these meetings that Galileo was given permission to write about the Copernican theory, as long as he treated it as a hypothesis. After the publication of Galileo' s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, in 1632, the patronage relationship was broken. It appears that the Pope never forgave Galileo for putting the argument of God's omnipotence (the argument he himself had put to Galileo in 1623) in the mouth of Simplicio, the staunch Aristotelian whose arguments had been systematically destroyed in the previous 400-odd pages. At any rate, the Pope resisted all efforts to have Galileo pardoned. }}] Historians of science have since corrected numerous false interpretations of the affair.[{{cite book|last1=Finocchiaro|first1=Maurice A.|title=The Trial of Galileo : Essential Documents|date=2014|isbn=978-1-62466-132-7|chapter=Introduction|pages=1–4|publisher=Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated |quote=..one of the most common myths widely held about the trial of Galileo, including several elements: that he "saw" the earth's motion (an observation still impossible to make even in the twenty-first century); that he was "imprisoned" by the Inquisition (whereas he was actually held under house arrest); and that his crime was to have discovered the truth. And since to condemn someone for this reason can result only from ignorance, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness, this is also the myth that alleges the incompatibility between science and religion.}}][[[#Reference-McMullin-2008|McMullin (2008)]]]
== Initial controversies ==
[[File:Jupiter family.jpg|thumb|250px|Photomontage of the [[Galilean moons]]. Galileo viewed these moons as a smaller Copernican system within the Solar System and used them to support [[heliocentrism]].]]
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Galileo began his telescopic observations in the later part of 1609, and by March 1610 was able to publish a small book, ''The Starry Messenger'' (''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]''), describing some of his discoveries: mountains on the [[Moon]], lesser moons in orbit around [[Jupiter]], and the resolution of what had been thought to be very cloudy masses in the sky (nebulae) into collections of stars too faint to see individually without a telescope. Other observations followed, including the phases of [[Venus]] and the existence of [[sunspot]]s.
Galileo's contributions caused difficulties for [[Theology|theologians]] and [[natural philosophers]] of the time, as they contradicted scientific and philosophical ideas based on those of [[Aristotle]] and [[Ptolemy]] and closely associated with the Catholic Church. In particular, Galileo's observations of the phases of Venus, which showed it to circle the Sun, and the observation of moons orbiting Jupiter, contradicted the [[geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]], which was backed and accepted by the Roman Catholic Church,[{{cite book |title=Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos; Or, Quadripartite Being Four Books of The influence of the Stars |first1=J. M. |last1=Ashmand |publisher=Library of Alexandria |year=1936 |isbn=978-1-61310-429-3 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HphOkVo2JxkC}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=HphOkVo2JxkC&pg=PT1 Extract of page 1]][{{cite book |title=How to Find a Habitable Planet |edition=illustrated |first1=James |last1=Kasting |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-691-13805-3 |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPqEeB-SRvUC}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=xPqEeB-SRvUC&pg=PA4 Extract of page 4]] and supported the Copernican model advanced by Galileo.[{{cite book|last=Drake|first=Stillman|title=Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 1|date=1999|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|pages=292|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sp8_hrRI2MoC|isbn=978-0-8020-7585-7}}]
[[Jesuit]] astronomers, experts both in Church teachings, science, and in natural philosophy, were at first skeptical and hostile to the new ideas; however, within a year or two the availability of good telescopes enabled them to repeat the observations. In 1611, Galileo visited the [[Collegium Romanum]] in Rome, where the Jesuit astronomers by that time had repeated his observations. [[Christoph Grienberger]], one of the Jesuit scholars on the faculty, sympathized with Galileo's theories, but was asked to defend the Aristotelian viewpoint by [[Claudio Acquaviva]], the Father General of the Jesuits. Not all of Galileo's claims were completely accepted: [[Christopher Clavius]], the most distinguished astronomer of his age, never was reconciled to the idea of mountains on the Moon, and outside the collegium many still disputed the reality of the observations. In a letter to [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]] of August 1610,[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 162)]], [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 86)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=10-421 (1900, 10:421–423)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230546/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=10-421 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|la}}.] Galileo complained that some of the philosophers who opposed his discoveries had refused even to look through a telescope:[Galileo did not name the philosophers concerned, but Galileo scholars have identified two of them as [[Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)|Cesare Cremonini]] and Giulio Libri [[#Reference-Drake-1978|(Drake, 1978, pp. 162, 165]]; [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt, 1994, p. 87)]]. Claims of similar refusals by bishops and cardinals have sometimes been made, but there appears to be no evidence to support them.]
{{blockquote|My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth.[[[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]], [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=10-423 (1900, 10:423)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718004557/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=10-423 |date=July 18, 2011 }} {{in lang|la}}. The original Latin reads: "Volo, mi Keplere, ut rideamus insignem vulgi stultitiam. Quid dices de primariis huius Gimnasii philosophis, qui, aspidis pertinacia repleti, nunquam, licet me ultro dedita opera millies offerente, nec Planetas, nec ☽, nec perspicillum, videre voluerunt? Verum ut ille aures, sic isti oculos, contra veritatis lucem obturarunt." A variety of translations of variable quality have appeared in print{{snd}}[[#Reference-bethune-1830|Bethune]] [https://archive.org/stream/lifeofgalileogal00bethrich#page/n39/mode/2up (1830, p. 29)], [[#Reference-Fahie-2005|Fahie]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=dnn66vXxD2YC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102 (2005, p. 102)], [[#Reference-Lodge-2003|Lodge]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=LrYlZ0ncgHcC&pg=PT117 (2003, p. 106)]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, and [[#Reference-Santillana-1976|de Santillana]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=RABIZBnf_y4C&pg=PA9 (1976, p. 9)], for example.]}}
[[File:Ptolemaeus.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Claudius Ptolemy]] (A.D. 90–168), whose [[Geocentrism|geocentric]] system was adopted by the Catholic Church,[Bucciantini, Massimo; Camerota, Michele; Giudice, Franco (2015). ''Galileo's Telescope'' [''Il telescopia di Galileo: Una storia europea'']. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 4. {{ISBN|978-0-674-73691-7}}.]
Geocentrists who did verify and accept Galileo's findings had an alternative to Ptolemy's model in an [[Tychonic system|alternative geocentric (or "geo-heliocentric") model]] proposed some decades earlier by [[Tycho Brahe]] – a model in which, for example, Venus circled the Sun. Tycho argued that the distance to the stars in the Copernican system would have to be 700 times greater than the distance from the Sun to Saturn. (The nearest star other than the Sun, Proxima Centauri, is over 28,000 times the distance from the Sun to Saturn.) Moreover, the only way the stars could be so distant and still appear the sizes they do in the sky would be if even average stars were gigantic – at least as big as the orbit of the Earth, and of course vastly larger than the Sun. (See the articles on the [[Tychonic System]] and [[Stellar parallax]].)
Galileo became involved in a dispute over priority in the discovery of sunspots with [[Christoph Scheiner]], a Jesuit. This became a bitter lifelong feud. Neither of them, however, was the first to recognise sunspots – [[Chinese astronomy|the Chinese]] had already been familiar with them for centuries.[[[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 98)]].]
At this time, Galileo also engaged in a dispute over the reasons that objects float or sink in water, siding with [[Archimedes]] against Aristotle. The debate was unfriendly, and Galileo's blunt and sometimes sarcastic style, though not extraordinary in academic debates of the time, made him enemies such as the Florentine nobleman [[Lodovico delle Colombe]]. During this controversy one of Galileo's friends, the painter [[Cigoli|Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli]], informed him that a group of malicious opponents led by delle Colombe, which Cigoli subsequently referred to derisively as "the Pigeon league",["La legha del Pippione" [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|(Favaro]], [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=11-476 1901, 11:476)] {{in lang|it}}. "The Pigeon" ("il Pippione") was Cigoli's derisive nickname for the presumed leader of the group, Lodovico delle Colombe [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|(Sharratt, 1994, p. 95]]; [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]], [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=11-176 1901, 11:176], [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=11-228 11:228–229], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221173004/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=11-228 |date=February 21, 2009 }} [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=11-502 11:502)]. It is a pun on Colombe's surname, which is the feminine plural form of the Italian word for "Dove". "Pippione" is a now obsolete Italian word with a triple entendre{{snd}}besides meaning "young pigeon", it was also a jocular colloquialism for a testicle, and a Tuscan dialect word for a fool.] was plotting to cause him trouble over the motion of the Earth, or anything else that would serve the purpose.[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 180)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro (1901)]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=11-241 11:241–242)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221180154/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?MODO=PAGINA&VOLPAG=11-241 |date=February 21, 2009 }} {{in lang|it}}.] According to Cigoli, one of the plotters asked a priest to denounce Galileo's views from the pulpit, but the latter refused. Nevertheless, three years later another priest, [[Tommaso Caccini]], a member of the "Pigeon League",[{{Cite web |last=Van Helden |first=Al |date=1995 |title=Tommaso Caccini |url=http://galileo.rice.edu/chr/caccini.html |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=The Galileo Project |via=[[Rice University]]}}] did in fact do precisely that, [[#caccinisermon|as described below]].
== Bible argument ==
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In the Catholic world prior to Galileo's conflict with the Church, the majority of educated people subscribed to the Aristotelian [[geocentrism|geocentric]] view that the Earth was the centre of the universe and that all heavenly bodies revolved around the Earth,[{{cite book|last=Blackwell|first=Richard|title=Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible|date=1991|publisher=University of Notre Dame Press|location=Notre Dame|isbn=0-268-01024-2|page=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHnwAAAAMAAJ}}] though [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernican]] theories were used to reform the calendar in 1582.["The Gregorian calendar, first adopted in 1582, was in fact based on computations that made use of Copernicus' work." {{cite book|author=Thomas Kuhn|title=The Copernican Revolution|url=https://archive.org/details/copernicanrevolu0008kuhn|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/copernicanrevolu0008kuhn/page/125 125]|date=1957|publisher=Harvard University Press}}]
[[File:God the Geometer.jpg|thumb|upright|Christian painting of God creating the cosmos (Bible Moralisee, French, 13th century)]]
Geostaticism agreed with a [[Biblical literalism|literal interpretation]] of Scripture in several places, such as {{bibleverse|1 Chronicles|16:30}}, {{bibleverse|Psalm|93:1}}, {{bibleverse|Psalm|96:10}}, {{bibleverse|Psalm|104:5}}, {{bibleverse|Ecclesiastes|1:5}} (but see varied interpretations of {{bibleverse|Job|26:7}}). [[Heliocentrism]], the theory that the Earth was a planet, which along with all the others revolved around the Sun, contradicted both [[geocentrism]] and the prevailing theological support of the theory.
One of the first suggestions of heresy that Galileo had to deal with came in 1613 from a professor of philosophy, poet and specialist in Greek literature, [[Cosimo Boscaglia]].[''Four Treatises for the Reconsideration of the History of Science'', Fabio J. a. Farina][Heilbron (2010), p. 369] In conversation with Galileo's patron [[Cosimo II de' Medici]] and Cosimo's mother [[Christina of Lorraine]], Boscaglia said that the telescopic discoveries were valid, but that the motion of the Earth was obviously contrary to Scripture:
Dr. Boscaglia had talked to Madame [Christina] for a while, and though he conceded all the things you have discovered in the sky, he said that the motion of the Earth was incredible and could not be, particularly since Holy Scripture obviously was contrary to such motion.[{{cite book|last=Langford|first=Jerome J.|title=Galileo, science, and the church (with foreword by Stillman Drake)|date=1992|publisher=University of Michigan Press|location=Ann Arbor|isbn=0-472-06510-6|page=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcDrMlJjlLoC|edition=3rd}} – Letter from Benedetto Castelli to Galileo, 1613–14]
Galileo was defended on the spot by his former student [[Benedetto Castelli]], now a professor of mathematics and [[Benedictine]] [[abbot]]. The exchange having been reported to Galileo by Castelli, Galileo decided to write a [[Letter to Benedetto Castelli|letter to Castelli]],[{{cite web |url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/lettercastelli.html |title=Letter from Galileo to Cardinal Dini (May, 1615) |access-date=2011-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206071010/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/lettercastelli.html |archive-date=2011-02-06 }}] expounding his views on what he considered the most appropriate way of treating scriptural passages which made assertions about natural phenomena.[[[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 109)]].] Later, in 1615, he expanded this into his much longer ''[[Letter to Grand Duchess Christina|Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina]]''.[[[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, pp. 112–126)]].]
[[Tommaso Caccini]], a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[friar]], appears to have made the first dangerous attack on Galileo. Preaching a sermon in [[Florence]] at the end of 1614, he denounced Galileo, his associates, and mathematicians in general (a category that included astronomers).[{{cite book |last1=Speller |first1= Jules |title=Galileo's Inquisition Trial Revisited |date=2008 |publisher= Peter Lang |pages= 57–58 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jviElHq-kEcC |isbn= 978-3-631-56229-1}}] The biblical text for the sermon on that day was [[Book of Joshua|Joshua]] 10, in which Joshua makes the Sun stand still;[{{cite book|last1=Finocchiario|first1=Maurice|title=The Essential Galileo|date=2014|publisher=Hackett Publishing|pages=168–172}}] this was the story that Castelli had to interpret for the Medici family the year before.[{{cite book|last1=Mayer|first1=Thomas|title=The Trial of Galileo, 1612–1633|date=2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|pages=49–55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNa-zidSXGYC&pg=PA49|isbn=978-1-4426-0519-0}}] It is said, though it is not verifiable, that Caccini also used the passage from [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 1:11, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?".[{{cite book|last1=Naess|first1=Atle|title=Galileo Galilei – When the World Stood Still|date=2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|pages=89–91|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9fWI6vfgjo8C|isbn=978-3-540-27054-6}}]
== First meetings with theological authorities ==
In late 1614 or early 1615, one of Caccini's fellow Dominicans, [[Niccolò Lorini]], acquired a copy of Galileo's letter to Castelli. Lorini and other Dominicans at the Convent of San Marco considered the letter of doubtful orthodoxy, in part because it may have violated the decrees of the [[Council of Trent]]:
{{blockquote|...to check unbridled spirits, [the Holy Council] decrees that no one relying on his own judgement shall, in matters of faith and morals pertaining to the edification of Christian doctrine, distorting the Scriptures in accordance with his own conceptions, presume to interpret them contrary to that sense which the holy mother Church... has held or holds...|Decree of the Council of Trent (1545–1563). Quoted in Langford, 1992.[Langford (1992), pp. 56-57]}}
[[File:Council of Trent.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Council of Trent]] (1545–63) sitting in the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]]. The [[Roman Inquisition]] suspected Galileo of violating the decrees of the council. Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento.]]
Lorini and his colleagues decided to bring Galileo's letter to the attention of the Inquisition. In February 1615, Lorini accordingly sent a copy to the Secretary of the Inquisition, Cardinal [[Paolo Emilio Sfondrati]], with a covering letter critical of Galileo's supporters:[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 240)]], [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, pp. 110–111)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=19&VOLPAG=297 (1907, 19:297–298)] {{in lang|it}}.]
{{blockquote|All our Fathers of the devout Convent of St. Mark feel that the letter contains many statements which seem presumptuous or suspect, as when it states that the words of Holy Scripture do not mean what they say; that in discussions about natural phenomena the authority of Scripture should rank last... . [The followers of Galileo] were taking it upon themselves to expound the Holy Scripture according to their private lights and in a manner different from the common interpretation of the Fathers of the Church...|Letter from Lorini to Cardinal Sfrondato, Inquisitor in Rome, 1615. Quoted in Langford, 1992[[[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 111)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=19&VOLPAG=307 (1907, 19:307–311)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927233248/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=19&VOLPAG=307 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|la|it}}.]
Galileo soon heard reports that Lorini had obtained a copy of his letter to Castelli and was claiming that it contained many heresies. He also heard that Caccini had gone to Rome and suspected him of trying to stir up trouble with Lorini's copy of the letter.[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 241)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=5&VOLPAG=291 (1895, 5:291–292)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231150/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=5&VOLPAG=291 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|it}}.] As 1615 wore on he became more concerned, and eventually determined to go to Rome as soon as his health permitted, which it did at the end of the year. By presenting his case there, he hoped to clear his name of any suspicion of heresy, and to persuade the Church authorities not to suppress heliocentric ideas.
In going to Rome Galileo was acting against the advice of friends and allies, and of the Tuscan ambassador to Rome, [[Piero Guicciardini]].[Langford, 1992, p. 79]
== Bellarmine ==
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[[File:Saint Robert Bellarmine.png|thumb|upright|Cardinal [[Robert Bellarmine]] (1542–1621), who deliberated upon Galileo's writings in 1615–6, and ordered him to refrain from holding, teaching or discussing [[Heliocentrism|Copernicanism]]]]
Cardinal [[Robert Bellarmine]], one of the most respected Catholic theologians of the time, was called on to adjudicate the dispute between Galileo and his opponents. The question of heliocentrism had first been raised with Cardinal Bellarmine, in the case of [[Paolo Antonio Foscarini]], a [[Carmelites|Carmelite]] father; Foscarini had published a book, ''Lettera ... sopra l'opinione ... del Copernico'', which attempted to reconcile Copernicus with the biblical passages that seemed to be in contradiction. Bellarmine at first expressed the opinion that Copernicus's book would not be banned, but would at most require some editing so as to present the theory purely as a calculating device for "[[Scientific formalism|saving the appearances]]" (i.e. preserving the observable evidence).[[[#Reference-Blackwell-1991|Blackwell (1991, p. 74)]], [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 112)]] "Saving the appearances" meant that the theory could enable astronomers to accurately predict and explain all the empirically observed apparent motions of the Sun, Moon, stars and planets.]
Foscarini sent a copy of his book to Bellarmine, who replied in a letter of April 12, 1615.[[[#Reference-Blackwell-1991|Blackwell (1991, pp. 265–67)]], [[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1989|Finocchiaro (1989, pp. 67–9)]]. A copy of Finocchiaro's translation of the letter [http://www.disf.org/en/documentation/03-Bellarmino.asp is available on-line].] Galileo is mentioned by name in the letter, and a copy was soon sent to him. After some preliminary salutations and acknowledgements, Bellarmine begins by telling Foscarini that it is prudent for him and Galileo to limit themselves to treating heliocentrism as a merely hypothetical phenomenon and not a physically real one. Further on he says that interpreting heliocentrism as physically real would be "a very dangerous thing, likely not only to irritate all scholastic philosophers and theologians, but also to harm the Holy Faith by rendering Holy Scripture as false". Moreover, while the topic was not inherently a matter of faith, the statements about it in Scripture ''were'' so by virtue of who said them – namely, the Holy Spirit. He conceded that if there were conclusive proof, "then one would have to proceed with great care in explaining the Scriptures that appear contrary; and say rather that we do not understand them, than that what is demonstrated is false". However, demonstrating that heliocentrism merely "saved the appearances" could not be regarded as sufficient to establish that it was physically real. Although he believed that the former may well have been possible, he had "very great doubts" that the latter would be, and in case of doubt it was not permissible to depart from the traditional interpretation of Scriptures. His final argument was a rebuttal of an analogy that Foscarini had made between a moving Earth and a ship on which the passengers perceive themselves as apparently stationary and the receding shore as apparently moving. Bellarmine replied that in the case of the ship the passengers know that their perceptions are erroneous and can mentally correct them, whereas the scientist on the Earth clearly experiences that it is stationary and therefore the perception that the Sun, Moon and stars are moving is not in error and does not need to be corrected.
Bellarmine found no problem with heliocentrism so long as it was treated as a purely hypothetical calculating device and not as a physically real phenomenon, but he did not regard it as permissible to advocate the latter unless it could be conclusively proved through current scientific standards. This put Galileo in a difficult position, because he believed that the available evidence strongly favoured heliocentrism, and he wished to be able to publish his arguments.[[[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, pp. 115-25)]].]
== Francesco Ingoli ==
In addition to Bellarmine, Monsignor [[Francesco Ingoli]] initiated a debate with Galileo, sending him in January 1616 an essay disputing the Copernican system. Galileo later stated that he believed this essay to have been instrumental in the action against Copernicanism that followed in February.[[[#Reference-Graney-2015|Graney (2015, pp. 68–69)]] Ingoli's essay was published in English translation for the first time in 2015.] According to philosopher [[Maurice Finocchiaro]], Ingoli had probably been commissioned by the Inquisition to write an expert opinion on the controversy, and the essay provided the "chief direct basis" for the ban.[[[#Reference-Finocchiaro-2010|Finocchiaro (2010, pp. 72)]]] The essay focused on eighteen physical and mathematical arguments against heliocentrism. It borrowed primarily from the arguments of Tycho Brahe, and it notedly mentioned Brahe's argument that heliocentrism required the stars to be much larger than the Sun. Ingoli wrote that the great distance to the stars in the heliocentric theory "clearly proves ... the fixed stars to be of such size, as they may surpass or equal the size of the orbit circle of the Earth itself".[[[#Reference-Graney-2015|Graney (2015, pp. 71)]]] Ingoli included four theological arguments in the essay, but suggested to Galileo that he focus on the physical and mathematical arguments. Galileo did not write a response to Ingoli until 1624, in which, among other arguments and evidence, he listed the results of experiments such as [[Galileo's ship|dropping a rock from the mast of a moving ship]].[[[#Reference-Graney-2015|Graney (2015, pp. 66–76, 164–175, 187–195)]]]
== Inquisition and first judgment, 1616 ==
[[File:Paul V Caravaggio.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Pope Paul V]] (1552–1621), who ordered that the inquisitorial commission's 1616 judgement be delivered to Galileo by Cardinal Bellarmine ([[Caravaggio]])]]
=== Deliberation ===
On February 19, 1616, the Inquisition asked a commission of theologians, known as qualifiers, about the propositions of the heliocentric view of the universe.[[[#Reference-Fantoli-2005|Fantoli (2005, p. 118)]], [[#Reference-McMullin-2005b|McMullin (2005b, p. 152)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=19&VOLPAG=320 (1907, 19:320)] {{in lang|it}}.] Historians of the Galileo affair have offered different accounts of why the matter was referred to the qualifiers at this time. [[#Reference-Beretta-2005a|Beretta]] points out that the Inquisition had taken a deposition from Gianozzi Attavanti in November 1615,[[[#Reference-Beretta-2005a|Beretta (2005a, pp. 247–248)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=19&VOLPAG=318 (1907, 19:318)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927233312/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=19&VOLPAG=318 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|it}}.] as part of its investigation into the denunciations of Galileo by Lorini and Caccini. In this deposition, Attavanti confirmed that Galileo had advocated the Copernican doctrines of a stationary Sun and a mobile Earth, and as a consequence the Tribunal of the Inquisition would have eventually needed to determine the theological status of those doctrines. It is however possible, as surmised by the Tuscan ambassador, Piero Guiccardini, in a letter to the Grand Duke,[[[#Reference-McMullin-2005b|McMullin (2005b, pp. 167–168)]], [[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 252)]], [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 127)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=12&VOLPAG=242 (1902,12:242)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230553/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=12&VOLPAG=242 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|it}}.] that the actual referral may have been precipitated by Galileo's aggressive campaign to prevent the condemnation of Copernicanism.[An inaccuracy in Guicciardini's letter has led some historians (e.g. [[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake, 1978, p. 252]]; [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt, 1994, p. 127]]) to identify a meeting between Cardinal Orsini and the Pope as the specific incident which triggered the Copernican propositions' referral to the qualifiers. This cannot have been the case, however, because the meeting did not occur until several days ''after'' the propositions had been referred to them. [[#Reference-McMullin-2005b|(McMullin, 2005b, pp. 152, 153)]]]
=== Judgement ===
On February 24 the Qualifiers delivered their unanimous report: the proposition that the Sun is stationary at the centre of the universe is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture"; the proposition that the Earth moves and is not at the centre of the universe "receives the same judgement in philosophy; and ... in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith".[{{cite web|url=http://astro.wcupa.edu/mgagne/ess362/resources/finocchiaro.html#conreport |title=The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History |publisher=University of California Press |date=1989 |access-date=October 29, 2014 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013053/http://astro.wcupa.edu/mgagne/ess362/resources/finocchiaro.html#conreport |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}][{{cite arXiv | last = Graney | first = Christopher M. | title = The Inquisition's Semicolon: Punctuation, Translation, and Science in the 1616 Condemnation of the Copernican System | date = March 2014 | class = physics.hist-ph | eprint=1402.6168}}] The original report document was made widely available in 2014.[{{Cite web | last = Domínguez | first = Nuño | date = Feb 2014 | title = Una errata reproducida durante siglos cambia la censura de la Iglesia a Galileo | periodical = Materia | url = http://esmateria.com/2014/02/28/una-errata-reproducida-durante-siglos-cambia-la-censura-de-la-iglesia-a-galileo/ | access-date = 9 August 2016 | language = es | archive-date = 2 March 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210302123644/http://esmateria.com/2014/02/28/una-errata-reproducida-durante-siglos-cambia-la-censura-de-la-iglesia-a-galileo/ | url-status = dead }}]
At a meeting of the cardinals of the Inquisition on the following day, [[Pope Paul V]] instructed Bellarmine to deliver this result to Galileo, and to order him to abandon the Copernican opinions; should Galileo resist the decree, stronger action would be taken. On February 26, Galileo was called to Bellarmine's residence and ordered,
{{blockquote|to abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it... to abandon completely... the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing.|The Inquisition's injunction against Galileo, 1616.[Heilbron (2010), p. 218][{{cite book |title=The Trial of Galileo: Essential Documents |edition=revised |first1=Maurice A. |last1=Finocchiaro |publisher=Hackett Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-62466-135-8 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U69aBAAAQBAJ}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=U69aBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 Extract of page 102]]}}
[[File:Index Librorum Prohibitorum 1.jpg|thumb|upright|The ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', a list of books banned by the Catholic Church. Following the Inquisition's 1616 judgment, the works of Copernicus, Galileo, [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]] and others advocating heliocentrism were banned.]]
With no attractive alternatives, Galileo accepted the orders delivered, even sterner than those recommended by the Pope.[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 253)]].] Galileo met again with Bellarmine, apparently on friendly terms; and on March 11 he met with the Pope, who assured him that he was safe from prosecution so long as he, the Pope, should live. Nonetheless, Galileo's friends [[Giovanni Francesco Sagredo|Sagredo]] and Castelli reported that there were rumors that Galileo had been forced to [[recant]] and do penance. To protect his good name, Galileo requested a letter from Bellarmine stating the truth of the matter. This letter assumed great importance in 1633, as did the question whether Galileo had been ordered not to "hold or defend" Copernican ideas (which would have allowed their hypothetical treatment) or not to teach them in any way. If the Inquisition had issued the order not to teach heliocentrism at all, it would have been ignoring Bellarmine's position.
In the end, Galileo did not persuade the Church to stay out of the controversy, but instead saw [[heliocentrism]] formally declared false. It was consequently termed heretical by the Qualifiers, since it contradicted the literal meaning of the Scriptures, though this position was not binding on the Church.{{Cn|date=June 2025}}
=== Copernican books banned ===
Following the Inquisition's injunction against Galileo, the papal [[Theologian of the Pontifical Household|Master of the Sacred Palace]] ordered that Foscarini's ''Letter'' be banned, and Copernicus' ''De revolutionibus'' suspended until corrected. The papal [[Congregation of the Index]] preferred a stricter prohibition, and so with the Pope's approval, on March 5 the Congregation banned all books advocating the Copernican system, which it called "the false Pythagorean doctrine, altogether contrary to Holy Scripture".[Finnochiario (2007), p. 154]
Galileo's works advocating Copernicanism were therefore banned, and his sentence prohibited him from "teaching, defending… or discussing" Copernicanism. In Germany, Kepler's works were also banned by the papal order.[{{cite book|last=Finochiario|first=Maurice|title=Retrying Galileo|date=2007|publisher=University of California Press}}]
== ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' ==
[[File:Galileos Dialogue Title Page.png|thumb|left|Frontispiece and title page of Galileo's ''[[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems|Dialogue]]'', in which Galileo advocated heliocentrism]]
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In 1623, [[Pope Gregory XV]] died and was succeeded by [[Pope Urban VIII]] who showed greater favor to Galileo, particularly after Galileo traveled to Rome to congratulate the new Pontiff.[Youngson, Robert M. ''Scientific Blunders: A Brief History of How Wrong Scientists Can Sometimes Be''; Carroll & Graff Publishers, Inc.; 1998; Pages 290–293]
Galileo's ''[[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems]]'', which was published in 1632 to great popularity,[{{cite news| url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080829.w50booksdialogue/BNStory/DAVA+SOBEL | work=The Globe and Mail | first=Dava | last=Sobel | title= Galileo's Dialogue}}] was an account of conversations between a Copernican scientist, Salviati, an impartial and witty scholar named Sagredo, and a ponderous Aristotelian named Simplicio, who employed stock arguments in support of geocentricity, and was depicted in the book as being an intellectually inept fool. Simplicio's arguments are systematically refuted and ridiculed by the other two characters with what Youngson calls "unassailable proof" for the Copernican theory (at least versus the theory of Ptolemy – as Finocchiaro points out, "the Copernican and Tychonic systems were [[Observational equivalence|observationally equivalent]] and the available evidence could be explained equally well by either"[[[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1997|Finocchiaro (1997)]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Li4eh7JIMtIC&pg=PA54 p. 54)]]), which reduces Simplicio to baffled rage, and makes the author's position unambiguous.[[[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1997|Finocchiaro (1997)]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Li4eh7JIMtIC&pg=PA82 p. 82)]; [[#Reference-Moss&Wallace-2003|Moss & Wallace (2003)]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Lw50esHmgacC&pg=PA11 p. 11)]] Authors Langford and [[Stillman Drake]] asserted that Simplicio was modeled on philosophers [[Lodovico delle Colombe]] and [[Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)|Cesare Cremonini]]. Pope Urban demanded that his own arguments be included in the book, which resulted in Galileo putting them in the mouth of Simplicio. Some months after the book's publication, [[Pope Urban VIII]] banned its sale and had its text submitted for examination by a special commission."The Sentence of the Inquisition on Galileo"
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With the loss of many of his defenders in Rome because of ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'', in 1633 Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy "for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the sun is the center of the world" against the 1616 condemnation, since "it was decided at the Holy Congregation [...] on 25 Feb 1616 that [...] the Holy Office would give you an injunction to abandon this doctrine, not to teach it to others, not to defend it, and not to treat of it; and that if you did not acquiesce in this injunction, you should be imprisoned".[[[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1989|Finocchiaro (1989, p. 288)]]. A copy of this quotation, taken from Finocchiaro's translation of the Inquisition's judgement against Galileo is [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013053/http://astro.wcupa.edu/mgagne/ess362/resources/finocchiaro.html#sentence available online]]
Galileo was interrogated while threatened with physical torture.[Sharratt ([[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|1994]], pp. 172–3]).]
Galileo was found guilty, and the sentence of the Inquisition, issued on 22 June 1633,[{{cite web|url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/condemnation.html|title=Papal Condemnation (Sentence) of Galileo in 1633|publisher=[[University of Missouri—Kansas City]]|access-date=21 June 2011}}] was in three essential parts:
* Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to [[Abjuration|"abjure, curse, and detest"]] those opinions.[[[#Reference-Fantoli-2005|Fantoli (2005, p. 139)]], [[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1989|Finocchiaro (1989, pp. 288–293)]]. Finocchiaro's translation of the Inquisition's judgment against Galileo is [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013053/http://astro.wcupa.edu/mgagne/ess362/resources/finocchiaro.html#sentence available online]. "Vehemently suspect of heresy" was a technical term of [[canon law]] and did not necessarily imply that the Inquisition considered the opinions giving rise to the verdict to be heretical. The same verdict would have been possible even if the opinions had been subject only to the less serious censure of "erroneous in faith" [[#Reference-Fantoli-2005|(Fantoli, 2005, p. 140]]; [[#Reference-Heilbron-2005|Heilbron, 2005, pp. 282–284)]].]
* He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition.[[[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1989|Finocchiaro (1989]], pp.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wKCZFJuMCaQC&pg=PA38 38], 291, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wKCZFJuMCaQC&pg=PA306 306)]. Finocchiaro's translation of the Inquisition's judgement against Galileo is [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013053/http://astro.wcupa.edu/mgagne/ess362/resources/finocchiaro.html#sentence available on-line].] On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life.
* His offending ''Dialogue'' was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.[{{anchor|_note-publication-ban}}[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 367)]], [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 184)]], [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=16&VOLPAG=209 (1905, 16:209], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230419/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=16&VOLPAG=209 |date=September 27, 2007 }} [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=16&VOLPAG=230 230)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234122/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=16&VOLPAG=230 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|it}}. When Fulgenzio Micanzio, one of Galileo's friends in Venice, sought to have Galileo's ''Discourse on Floating Bodies'' reprinted in 1635, he was informed by the Venetian Inquisitor that the Inquisition had forbidden further publication of any of Galileo's works [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|(Favaro]], [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=16&VOLPAG=209 1905, 16:209)] {{in lang|it}}, and was later shown a copy of the order [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|(Favaro]], [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=16&VOLPAG=230 1905, 16:230)]. {{in lang|it}} When the Dutch publishers [[House of Elzevir|Elzevir]] published Galileo's ''Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences'' in 1638, some five years after his trial, they did so under the pretense that a manuscript he had presented to the French Ambassador to Rome for preservation and circulation to interested intellectuals had been used without his knowledge ([[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt, 1994, p. 184]]; [[#Reference-Galileo-1954|Galilei, 1954]] [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php?title=753&chapter=109888&layout=html p.xvii]; [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]], [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=8&VOLPAG=43 1898, 8:43] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231938/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=8&VOLPAG=43 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|it}}. Return to other article: [[Galileo Galilei#note-publication-ban|Galileo Galilei]][[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems#note-publication-ban|; Dialogue]][[Two New Sciences#note-publication-ban|; Two New Sciences]]]
According to popular legend, after his abjuration Galileo allegedly muttered the rebellious phrase [[And yet it moves|"and yet it moves" (''Eppur si muove'')]], but there is no evidence that he actually said this or anything similar. The first account of the legend dates to a century after his death.[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 356)]]] The phrase "Eppur si muove" does appear, however, in a painting of the 1640s by the Spanish painter [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]] or an artist of his school. The painting depicts an imprisoned Galileo apparently pointing to a copy of the phrase written on the wall of his dungeon.[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 357)]]]
[[File:Torre del gallo.JPG|thumb|left|View of the [[Arcetri]] area in the hills above [[Florence]], where Galileo spent his life from 1634 onwards under house arrest.]]
After a period with the friendly [[Ascanio II Piccolomini|Archbishop Piccolomini]] in [[Siena]], Galileo was allowed to return to his villa at [[Arcetri]] near Florence, where he spent the rest of his life under house arrest.[On two occasions only during this period he was given permission to travel away from Arcetri. In October 1636 he was permitted to travel to [[Poggibonsi]] to meet the French ambassador to Rome, François de Noailles ([[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt,1994]], [https://books.google.com/books/about/Galileo.html?id=rB0rHzrpJOMC&pg=PA184 p. 184]; [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=16&VOLPAG=507 1905, 16:507]{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{in lang|it}}. In March 1638 he was permitted to travel to Florence for medical treatment, where he spent several months before returning to Arcetri ([[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt,1994]], [https://books.google.com/books/about/Galileo.html?id=rB0rHzrpJOMC&pg=PA186 p. 186]; [[#Reference-Favaro-1890|Favaro]] [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=17&VOLPAG=290 1905, 17:290],{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?VOL=17&VOLPAG=310 310–11)]{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{in lang|it}}.] He continued his work on mechanics, and in 1638 he published a scientific book in Holland. His standing would remain questioned at every turn. In March 1641, [[Vincentio Reinieri]], a follower and pupil of Galileo, wrote him at Arcetri that an Inquisitor had recently compelled the author of a book printed at [[Florence]] to change the words "most distinguished Galileo" to "Galileo, man of noted name".[[[#Reference-Drake-1978|Drake (1978, p. 414)]]]
However, partially in tribute to Galileo, at Arcetri the first academy devoted to the new experimental science, [[Accademia del Cimento|the Accademia del Cimento]], was formed, which is where [[Francesco Redi]] performed [[controlled experiment]]s, and many other important advancements were made which would eventually help usher in [[The Age of Enlightenment]].
== Modern views ==
=== Historians and scholars ===
Pope Urban VIII had been a patron to Galileo and had given him permission to publish on the Copernican theory as long as he treated it as a hypothesis, but after the publication in 1632, the patronage broke due to Galileo placing Urban's arguments for God's omnipotence, which Galileo had been required to include, in the mouth of a simpleton character named "Simplicio" in the book; this caused great offense to the Pope.[See Langford [[#Reference-Langford-1998|(1966]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=zcDrMlJjlLoC&pg=PA133 pp. 133–134)], and Seeger [[#Reference-Seeger-1966|(1966]], [https://archive.org/stream/GalileoGalileiHisLifeAndHisWorks/Seeger-GalileoGalileiHisLifeWorks#page/n41/mode/1up p. 30)], for example. Drake [[#Reference-Drake-1978|(1978]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=OwOlRPbrZeQC&pg=PA355 p. 355)] asserts that Simplicio's character is modelled on the Aristotelian philosophers, Lodovico delle Colombe and [[Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)|Cesare Cremonini]], rather than Urban. He also considers that the demand for Galileo to include the Pope's argument in the ''Dialogue'' left him with no option but to put it in the mouth of Simplicio [[#Reference-Drake-1953|(Drake, 1953, p. 491)]]. Even [[Arthur Koestler]], who is generally quite harsh on Galileo in ''[[The Sleepwalkers (Koestler book)|The Sleepwalkers]]'' [[#Reference-Koestler-1990|(1959)]], after noting that Urban suspected Galileo of having intended Simplicio to be a caricature of him, says "this of course is untrue" [[#Reference-Koestler-1990|(1959, p. 483)]]]
[[Dava Sobel]] argues that during this time, Urban had fallen under the influence of court intrigue and problems of state. His friendship with Galileo began to take second place to his feelings of persecution and fear for his own life. The problem of Galileo was presented to the pope by court insiders and enemies of Galileo, following claims by a Spanish cardinal that Urban was a poor defender of the church. This situation did not bode well for Galileo's defense of his book.[Sobel, Dava (2000, pp. 223–225) [1999]. ''[[Galileo's Daughter]]''. London: Fourth Estate. {{ISBN|1-85702-712-4}}.]
In his 1998 book, ''Scientific Blunders'', Robert Youngson indicates that Galileo struggled for two years against the ecclesiastical censor to publish a book promoting heliocentrism. He claims the book passed only as a result of possible idleness or carelessness on the part of the censor, who was eventually dismissed. On the other hand, Jerome K. Langford and [[Raymond J. Seeger]] contend that Pope Urban and the Inquisition gave formal permission to publish the book, ''[[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems]], Ptolemaic & Copernican''. They claim Urban personally asked Galileo to give arguments for and against heliocentrism in the book, to include Urban's own arguments, and for Galileo not to advocate heliocentrism.[{{cite book |author= Jules Speller |title= Galileo's Inquisition Trial Revisited |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jviElHq-kEcC |date=2008 |publisher= [[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]] |isbn= 978-3-631-56229-1 |pages= 55–56 |quote= Inside the Catholic domain, the first difficulties worth mentioning begin to arise when, toward the end of 1610 or the beginning of 1611, appears the manuscript of an essary written by Lodovico (or Ludovico) delle Colombe ''Contro il moto della terra''. The author is a fierce Aristotelian attacking almost everything coming from Galileo, himself known to be very critical of Aristotelians of his age and having criticized a book of delle Colombe in 1604 (Drake 1980, 50; Blackwell 1991, 59–61). ]
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Thus the whole "Galileo affair" starts as a conflict initiated by a secular Aristotelian philosopher, who, unable to silence Galileo by philosophical arguments, uses religion to achieve his aim. |author-link= :lb:Jules Speller }}[{{cite book|last=Riper|first=A. Bowdoin Van|title=A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and TV since 1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtxBl3l1XHoC&pg=PA21|year= 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-8129-7|page=21|quote=Galileo did not simply reject the Aristotelian model of the universe: he offered concrete evidence that it was wrong. In 1609 and 1610 his use of a telescope for astronomical observation{{snd}}the first in history{{snd}}revealed spots on the sun and mountains on the moon that undermined the Aristotelian belief in celestial perfection ... Galileo made enemies with ease{{snd}}a result of his quick wit, sharp tongue, and distrust of authority. Many of them were priests, as well as astronomers and mathematicians, and found reason to dislike Galileo in both capacities.}}][{{cite book|author=John Lennox|title=God's Undertaker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiTvBXHZwpwC&pg=PA26|date=2009|publisher=[[Lion Hudson#Publishing|Lion Books]]|isbn=978-0-7459-5371-7|page=26|quote=Finally, another lesson in a different direction, but one not often drawn, is that it was Galileo, who believed in the Bible, who was advancing a better ''scientific'' understanding of the universe, not only, as we have seen, against the obscurantism of some churchmen, but (and first of all) against the resistance (and obscurantism) of secular philosophers of his time who, like the churchmen, were also convinced disciples of Aristotle.|author-link=John Lennox}}][{{cite book|first1=Peter|last1=Machamer|title=The Cambridge Companion to Galileo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wEFPLoqTeAC|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=247|date=13 August 1998|isbn=978-0-521-58841-6|via=Google Books}}] According to Finocchiaro, defenders of the Catholic church's position have sometimes attempted to argue, unsuccessfully, that Galileo was right on the facts but that his scientific arguments were weak or unsupported by evidence of the day; Finocchiaro rejects this view, saying that some of Galileo's key epistemological arguments are accepted fact today.[{{cite book|last1=Finocchiaro|first1=Maurice A.|title=The Trial of Galileo : Essential Documents|date=2014|isbn=978-1-62466-132-7|chapter=Introduction|pages=4–5|publisher=Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated |quote="I am not saying that the various proponents of the anti-Galilean accounts are right when they try to show that his arguments left much to be desired, ranging from inconclusive to weak to fallacious to sophistical. In fact, this evaluation is in my opinion untenable. ... To appreciate the next distinction, let us ask the whether Galileo or the Church was right in regard to the epistemological and methodological aspect of the controversy. Since such issues are normally more controversial than scientific ones, this is an area which some like to exploit by trying to argue that the Church's epistemological and philosophical insight was superior to Galileo's. ... However, such interpretations can be criticized for their exaggeration, one-sidedness, and superficiality in their analysis of the epistemological component of the affair. For example, I have already mentioned that there were at least four epistemological issues in the affair, and I am very doubtful that they can all be reduced to one. Moreover, it cannot be denied that Galileo turned out to be right on at least some of the epistemological issues—for example, those pertaining to the legitimacy of artificial instruments and to the Bible lacking scientific authority."}}] Direct evidence ultimately confirmed the motion of the Earth, with the emergence of [[Classical mechanics|Newtonian mechanics]] in the late 17th century, the observation of the [[stellar aberration]] of light by [[James Bradley]] in the 18th century, the analysis of orbital motions of binary stars by [[William Herschel]] in the 19th century, and the accurate measurement of the [[stellar parallax]] in the 19th century.[{{cite book|editor1-last = Biékowska|editor1-first = Barbara|title = Scientific World of Copernicus: On the Occasion of the 500th Anniversary of his Birth 1473–1973.|date = 2013|publisher = Springer|isbn = 978-9401026185|pages = 63–65}}][{{cite web|title= Did Galileo have Proof of the Earth's Movement?|url = http://muse.tau.ac.il/museum/galileo/did_galileo.html|publisher = Tel-Aviv University}}] According to Christopher Graney, an Adjunct Scholar at the Vatican Observatory, one of Galileo's observations did not support the Copernican heliocentric view, but was more consistent with [[Tycho Brahe]]'s hybrid model where the Earth did not move, and everything else circled around it and the Sun.[{{cite journal|last1 = Sanderson|first1 = Katharine|title = Galileo backed Copernicus despite data: Stars viewed through early telescopes suggested that Earth stood still|journal= Nature|date=5 March 2010|doi = 10.1038/news.2010.105|url = http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100305/full/news.2010.105.html |issn = 0028-0836 |url-access = subscription}}]
=== Redondi's theory ===
According to a controversial alternative theory proposed by Pietro Redondi in 1983, the main reason for Galileo's condemnation in 1633 was his attack on the [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]] doctrine of [[matter]] rather than his defence of Copernicanism.[[[#Reference-Redondi-1983|Redondi (1983)]].] An anonymous denunciation, labeled "G3", discovered by Redondi in the Vatican archives, had argued that the [[atomism]] espoused by Galileo in his previous work of 1623, ''[[The Assayer]]'', was incompatible with the doctrine of [[transubstantiation]] of the [[Eucharist]].[Redondi [[#Reference-Redondi-1983|(1983)]] attributed authorship of this document to [[Orazio Grassi]], the target of attacks by Galileo in ''The Assayer''. However, according to [[Sergio Pagano]] [[#Reference-Pagano-1984|(1984, p. 44)]], a handwriting expert, Fr. Edmondo Lamalle, S.J., who compared its handwriting with that of contemporaneous documents known to have been written by Grassi, declared it "absolutely not sustainable" ("non è assolutamente sostenibile") that they could be of the same hand.] At the time, investigation of this complaint was apparently entrusted to a Father Giovanni di Guevara, who was well-disposed towards Galileo, and who cleared ''The Assayer'' of any taint of unorthodoxy.[[[#Reference-Wallace-1991|Wallace (1991, pp. vii, 81–83)]].] A similar attack against ''The Assayer'' on doctrinal grounds was penned by Jesuit [[Orazio Grassi]] in 1626 under the pseudonym "Sarsi". According to Redondi:
* The Jesuits, who had already linked ''The Assayer'' to allegedly heretical atomist ideas, regarded the ideas about matter expressed by Galileo in ''The Dialogue'' as further evidence that his atomism was heretically inconsistent with the doctrine of the Eucharist, and protested against it on these grounds.[Redondi acknowledges that there are no surviving documents in which these protests were made explicit. His conclusions are based on complex inferences from indirect evidence.]
* [[Pope Urban VIII]], who had been under attack by Spanish cardinals for being too tolerant of heretics, and who had also encouraged Galileo to publish ''The Dialogue'', would have been compromised had his enemies among the Cardinal Inquisitors been given an opening to comment on his support of a publication containing Eucharistic heresies.
* Urban, after banning the book's sale, established a commission to examine ''The Dialogue'',[[[#Reference-Ferrone&Firpo-1986|Ferrone and Firpo (1986)]] and [[#Reference-Westfall-1989|Westfall (1989, pp. 58–93)]] provide comprehensive overviews of some of the criticisms that have been levelled at Redondi's theory. Briefer criticisms can be found in [[#Reference-Pagano-1984|Pagano (1984, pp. 43–48)]], [[#Reference-Gosselin-1985|Gosselin (1985)]], [[#Reference-Westfall-1987|Westfall (1987)]], [[#Reference-Baumgartner-1989|Baumgartner (1989)]], [[#Reference-Drake-1990|Drake (1990, p. 179 – footnote)]], [[#Reference-Blackwell-1991|Blackwell (1991, pp. 154–155, footnote 47)]], [[#Reference-Wallace-1991|Wallace (1991, pp. vii, 67, 81–84)]], [[#Reference-Sharratt-1994|Sharratt (1994, p. 149)]], [[#Reference-Artigas-2005|Artigas et al. (2005, pp. 214, 222, 225–227)]], and [[#Reference-Beretta-2005b|Beretta (2005b, pp. 192, 202–203)]].] However, it has been supported recently, as of 2007, by novelist and science writer [[Michael White (author)|Michael White]].[[[#Reference-White-2007|White (2007)]]]
=== Modern Catholic Church views ===
In 1758 the Catholic Church dropped the general prohibition of books advocating heliocentrism from the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum|Index of Forbidden Books]]''.[[[#Reference-Heilbron-2005|Heilbron (2005, p. 307)]].] It did not, however, explicitly rescind the decisions issued by the Inquisition in its judgement of 1633 against Galileo, or lift the prohibition of uncensored versions of Copernicus's ''De Revolutionibus'' or Galileo's ''Dialogue''.[[[#Reference-Heilbron-2005|Heilbron (2005, pp. 279, 312–313)]]] Settele appealed to pope [[Pius VII]]. After the matter had been reconsidered by the Congregation of the Index and the Holy Office, Anfossi's decision was overturned.[Finocchiaro ([[#CITEREFFinocchiaro2005|2005]], p.[https://books.google.com/books?id=IKW-4LyQeHYC&pg=PA198 198])]
In 1979, [[Pope John Paul II]] expressed the hope that "theologians, scholars and historians, animated by a spirit of sincere collaboration, will study the Galileo case more deeply and in loyal recognition of wrongs, from whatever side they come".[{{cite journal|last1=Segre|first1=Michael|title=Light on the Galileo Case?|journal=Isis|date=1997|volume=88|issue=3|pages=484–504|doi=10.1086/383771|s2cid=144374316}}] However, the Pontifical Interdisciplinary Study Commission constituted in 1981 to study the case did not reach any definitive result. Because of this, the Pope's 1992 speech that closed the project was vague, and did not fulfill his intentions expressed in 1979.[{{cite journal|last1=Segre|first1=Michael|title=Galileo: A 'rehabilitation' that has never taken place|journal=Endeavour|date=1999|volume=23|issue=1|pages=20–23|doi=10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01185-0}}]
On February 15, 1990, in a speech delivered at [[Sapienza University of Rome|La Sapienza]] — the University of Rome[An earlier version had been delivered on December 16, 1989, in Rieti, and a later version in Madrid on February 24, 1990 [[#Reference-Ratzinger-1994|(Ratzinger, 1994, p. 81)]]. According to Feyerabend himself, Ratzinger had also mentioned him "in support of" his own views in a speech in Parma around the same time [[#Reference-Feyerabend-1995|(Feyerabend, 1995, p. 178)]].] — Cardinal Ratzinger (later [[Pope Benedict XVI]]) cited some current views on the Galileo affair as forming what he called "a symptomatic case that illustrates the extent to which modernity's doubts about itself have grown today in science and technology".[Ratzinger [[#Reference-Ratzinger-1994|(1994, p. 98)]].] As evidence, he presented the views of a few prominent philosophers including [[Ernst Bloch]] and [[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker]], as well as [[Paul Feyerabend]], whom he quoted as saying:
{{Blockquote|The Church at the time of Galileo kept much more closely to reason than did Galileo himself, and she took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's teaching too. Her verdict against Galileo was rational and just, and the revision of this verdict can be justified only on the grounds of what is politically opportune.[Ratzinger [[#Reference-Ratzinger-1994|(1994, p. 98)]]. A partly browsable [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0898704618 on-line copy] of Ratzinger's text is available at Amazon.com. The page containing the quotation can be obtained by searching on a short extract. An alternative translation [http://ncrcafe.org/node/1541 (Allen, 2008)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515194016/http://ncrcafe.org/node/1541 |date=May 15, 2008 }} is also available on the web. However, Allen's attribution of his translation to a speech supposedly given by Ratzinger in Parma on March 15, 1990 contradicts the attribution given by his source{{snd}}namely, Ratzinger's speech at La Sapienza on February 15.]}}
Ratzinger did not directly say whether he agreed or disagreed with Feyerabend's assertions, but did say in this same context that "It would be foolish to construct an impulsive apologetic on the basis of such views."[[https://books.google.com/books?id=jB3ePe8DJuAC&pg=169 Daniel N. Robinson citing John Paul II] in ''Human nature in its wholeness: a Roman Catholic perspective'' edited by D. N. Robinson, G. M. Sweeney and R. Gill, Front Cover]
{{Blockquote|
Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist and by relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically invented the experimental method, understood why only the sun could function as the centre of the world, as it was then known, that is to say, as a planetary system. The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture...
|[[Pope John Paul II]]|L'Osservatore Romano N. 44 (1264) – November 4, 1992}}
In January 2008, students and professors protested the planned visit of [[Pope Benedict XVI]] to La Sapienza, stating in a letter that the pope's expressed views on Galileo "offend and humiliate us as scientists who are loyal to reason and as teachers who have dedicated our lives to the advance and dissemination of knowledge".[{{cite news|publisher=Corriere della Sera (English edition) |title=Sapienza Academics Reject Pope's University Address|date=2008-01-15|url=http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/2008/01_Gennaio/15/papa.shtml}}] In response the pope canceled his visit.[{{cite news|work=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7188860.stm|title=Papal visit scuppered by scholars|date=2008-01-15}}] The full text of the speech that would have been given was made available a few days following Pope Benedict's cancelled appearance at the university.[{{cite news|publisher=Catholic World News|title=The speech Pope Benedict did not deliver|date=2008-01-19|url=http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=56017&repos=4&subrepos=1&searchid=1726409}}]
La Sapienza's [[Rector (academia)|rector]], Renato Guarini, and former Italian Prime Minister [[Romano Prodi]] opposed the protest and supported the pope's right to speak.[{{cite news|publisher=Boston Globe|title=Pope cancels speech at university in Rome|date=2008-01-16|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/01/16/pope_cancels_speech_at_university_in_rome/ | first=Ian | last=Fisher}}]
Also notable were public counter-statements by La Sapienza professors Giorgio Israel[{{cite news|publisher=Catholic News Agency|title=Rejection of Pope's speech is fear of dialogue between faith and reason, professor says|date=2008-01-15|url=https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/europe/rejection-of-popes-speech-is-fear-of-dialogue-between-faith-and-reason-professor-says|access-date=2008-05-02|archive-date=2009-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221112743/http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11454|url-status=live}}; {{cite web|title=When Ratzinger Defended Galileo at "La Sapienza"|url=http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/186421?eng=y}} This last citation is a reprint of the original article that appeared in L'Osservatore Romano on January 15, 2008. Scroll down for access.] and Bruno Dalla Piccola.[{{cite web |title=Galileo on the Stage |url=http://portalegalileo.museogalileo.it/egjr.asp?c=36263 |access-date=2015-10-12 |publisher=Museo Galileo |date=2010}}] A listing centered on the films was presented in a 2010 article by Cristina Olivotto and Antonella Testa.[{{cite journal |title=Galileo and the Movies |journal=Physics in Perspective |date=December 2010 |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=372–395 |author1=Olivotto, Cristina |author2=Testa, Antonella |doi=10.1007/s00016-010-0027-4|bibcode = 2010PhP....12..372O |s2cid=119981584 }}]
*''Galilée'' is a French play by [[François Ponsard]] first performed in 1867.[A short description of the play in English is: {{cite web |title=Galilée – François Ponsard |url=http://portalegalileo.museogalileo.it/egjr.asp?c=36295 |access-date=2015-10-12 |publisher=Museo Galileo |date=2010}}]
*''Galileo Galilei'' is a short Italian silent film by [[Luigi Maggi]] that was released in 1909.[{{cite web |title=Galileo Galilei – Luigi Maggi |url=http://portalegalileo.museogalileo.it/egjr.asp?c=36298 |access-date=2015-10-12 |publisher=Museo Galileo |date=2010}}]
*''[[Life of Galileo]]'' is a play by the German playwright [[Bertolt Brecht]] that exists in several versions, including a 1947 version in English written with [[Charles Laughton]].[The American version of ''Galileo'' was first included as one chapter of a collection: {{cite book |title=From the Modern Repertoire, Series Two |editor1-first=Eric |editor1-last=Bentley |publisher=University of Denver Press |date=1952 |oclc=2294084 }}] The play has been called "Brecht's masterpiece" by Michael Billington of ''The Guardian'' British newspaper.[{{cite news |title=A Life of Galileo – review |last=Billington |first=Michael |date=February 13, 2013 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/feb/13/life-of-galileo-review |quote=the real pleasure of Roxana Silbert's modern-dress RSC revival and Mark Ravenhill's slimmed-down translation lies in the absolute clarity with which they put Brecht's masterpiece before us.}}] [[Joseph Losey]], who directed the first productions of the English language version in 1947, made a [[Galileo (1975 film)|film based on the play]] that was released in 1975.
*''[[Lamp At Midnight|Lamp at Midnight]]'' is a play by [[Barrie Stavis]] that was first performed in 1947. An adaptation of the play was televised in 1964; it was directed by [[George Schaefer (director)|George Schaefer]]. A recording was released as a VHS tape in the 1980s.[{{cite AV media |title=Lamp at Midnight |publisher=Films for the Humanities |date=1983 |oclc=11689040}}]
*''[[Galileo (1968 film)|Galileo]]'' is a 1968 Italian film written and directed by [[Liliana Cavani]].
*''[[Galileo Galilei (opera)|Galileo Galilei]]'' is an opera with music by [[Philip Glass]] and a libretto by [[Mary Zimmerman]]. It was first performed in 2002.
== See also ==
* [[Aristarchus of Samos]]
* [[Giordano Bruno]]
* [[Science_and_the_Catholic_Church#Galileo_Galilei:_The_ban_of_1616|Science and the Catholic Church]]
* [[Conflict thesis]]
* [[Vincenzo Maculani]]
== Notes ==
{{Reflist}}
== References ==
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* {{cite book | contribution=New Light on the Galileo affair?
| last1=Artigas | first1=Mariano
| last2= Martínez | first2=Rafael
| last3= Shea | first3=William R.
| pages=213–233
| editor-first=Ernan | editor-last=McMullin
| title=The Church and Galileo
| date=2005
| publisher=University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame
| isbn=0-268-03483-4
| ref=Reference-Artigas-2005}}
* {{cite book | contribution=Galileo, Urban VIII, and the Prosecution of Natural Philosophers
| last=Beretta | first=Francesco
| pages=234–261
| editor-first=Ernan | editor-last=McMullin
| title=The Church and Galileo
| date=2005
| publisher=University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame
| isbn=0-268-03483-4
| ref=Reference-Beretta-2005a}}
* {{cite book | contribution=The Documents of Galileo's Trial: Recent Hypotheses and Historical Criticisms
| last=Beretta | first=Francesco
| pages=191–212
| editor-first=Ernan | editor-last=McMullin
| title=The Church and Galileo
| date=2005
| publisher=University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame
| isbn=0-268-03483-4
| ref=Reference-Beretta-2005b}}
* {{cite journal
| ref = Reference-Baumgartner-1989
| last = Baumgartner
| first = Frederic J.
| title = Galileo Heretic (Book Review)
| journal = The Sixteenth Century Journal
| volume = XX
| issue = 2
| pages = 309–310
| date = 1989
| doi=10.2307/2540675| jstor = 2540675
}}
* {{cite book
| title= Making modern science: a historical survey
| last1= Bowler
| first1= Peter J.
| last2= Morus
| first2= Iwan Rhys
| author-link1= Peter J. Bowler
| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LEl3s-wYg10C
| publisher= University of Chicago Press
| date= 2005
| location= Chicago
| isbn= 0-226-06860-9
| ref= bowler&morus-2005
}}
* {{cite book
| title= The life of Galileo Galilei, with illustrations of the advancement of experimental philosophy
| first= John Elliot Drinkwater
| last= Bethune
| author-link= John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
| url= https://archive.org/details/lifeofgalileogal00bethrich
| location= London
| date= 1830
| ref= Reference-bethune-1830
}}
* {{cite book | title= Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible
| author= Blackwell, Richard J.
| publisher= University of Notre Dame Press
| location= Notre Dame, IN
| date= 1991
| isbn= 0-268-01024-2
| ref=Reference-Blackwell-1991}}
* {{cite journal
| title = Una errata reproducida durante siglos cambia la censura de la Iglesia a Galileo
| last = Domínguez
| first = Nuño
| website = EsMateria.com
| date = 28 Feb 2014
| url = http://esmateria.com/2014/02/28/una-errata-reproducida-durante-siglos-cambia-la-censura-de-la-iglesia-a-galileo/
| access-date = 18 April 2014
| archive-date = 2 March 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210302123644/http://esmateria.com/2014/02/28/una-errata-reproducida-durante-siglos-cambia-la-censura-de-la-iglesia-a-galileo/
| url-status = dead
}}
* {{cite book
| title= Galileo At Work
| author= Drake, Stillman
| author-link= Stillman Drake
| publisher= University of Chicago Press
| date= 1978
| location= Chicago
| isbn= 0-226-16226-5
| ref= Reference-Drake-1978
| url= https://archive.org/details/galileoatwork00stil
}}
* {{cite book
| title= Galileo: Pioneer Scientist
| author= Drake, Stillman
| author-link= Stillman Drake
| publisher= University of Toronto Press
| date= 1990
| location= Chicago, MI
| isbn= 0-8020-2725-3
| ref= Reference-Drake-1990
| url= https://archive.org/details/galileo00stil_0
}}
* {{cite book
| title= Galileo His Life and Work
| first= John
| last= Fahie
| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dnn66vXxD2YC
| publisher= Kessinger
| date= 2005
| isbn= 1-4179-6999-7
| location= Whitefish, MT
| ref= Reference-Fahie-2005
}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{cite book | contribution = the Disputed Injunction and its role in Galileo's Trial
| last=Fantoli | first=Annibale
| pages=117–149
| editor-first=Ernan | editor-last=McMullin
| title=The Church and Galileo
| date=2005
| publisher=University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame
| isbn=0-268-03483-4
| ref=Reference-Fantoli-2005}}
* {{cite book
|title = Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, Edizione Nazionale
|trans-title = The Works of Galileo Galilei, National Edition
|editor-last = Favaro
|editor-first = Antonio
|editor-link = :it:Antonio Favaro
|date = 1890–1909
|url = http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?AZIONE=CATALOGO
|language = it
|location = [[Florence]]
|publisher = Barbera
|isbn = 88-09-20881-1
|ref = Reference-Favaro-1890
}} A searchable online copy is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20081114183333/http://www.imss.fi.it/istituto/index.html Institute and Museum of the History of Science], Florence, and a brief overview of ''Le Opere'' is available at {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090103233923/http://www.finns-books.com/fgalileo.htm Finn's fine books]}}, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110103231202/http://www.pacifier.com/~tpope/Additional_Info.htm#National_Edition here].
* {{cite journal | title = From Inquisitors to Microhistorians: A Critique of Pietro Redondi's Galileo eretico
| last = Ferrone
| first = Vincenzo
|author2=Firpo, Massimo
| journal = The Journal of Modern History
| volume = 58
| issue = 2
| pages = 485–524
| date = June 1986
| doi = 10.1086/243016
| s2cid = 145172760
| ref=Reference-Ferrone&Firpo-1986}}
* {{cite book
| title= Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
| author= Feyerabend, Paul
| author-link= Paul Feyerabend
| publisher= University of Chicago Press
| date= 1995
| location= Chicago, MI
| isbn= 0-226-24531-4
| ref= Reference-Feyerabend-1995
| url= https://archive.org/details/killingtimeautob00feye
}}
* {{Citation | title = Defending Copernicus and Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the two Affairs
| author=Finocchiaro, Maurice
| publisher=Springer
| year= 2010
| isbn= 978-9048132003
| ref= Reference-Finocchiaro-2010}}
* {{cite book
| title= The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History
| author= Finocchiaro, Maurice A.
| publisher= University of California Press
| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wKCZFJuMCaQC
| date= 1989
| location= Berkeley, CA
| isbn= 0-520-06662-6
| ref= Reference-Finocchiaro-1989
}}
* {{cite book
| title= Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992
| last= Finocchiaro
| first= Maurice A.
| publisher= University of California Press
| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IKW-4LyQeHYC
| date= 2005
| location= Berkeley, CA
| isbn= 0-520-24261-0
}}
* {{Citation
| title = Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo
| author = Graney, Christopher M.
| publisher=University of Notre Dame Press
| year= 2015
| bibcode = 2015saaa.book.....G
| isbn= 978-0-268-02988-3
| ref= Reference-Graney-2015}}
* {{cite book
|title = Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
|url = https://archive.org/details/dialogueconcerni00gali_0
|url-access = registration
|others = Translator: Stillman Drake
|author = Galileo Galilei
|publisher = University of California Press
|date = 1953
|location = Berkeley, CA
|ref = Reference-Drake-1953
|isbn = 0-520-00449-3
}}
* {{cite book
| title= Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide
| author1= Galileo Galilei
| last2= Finocchiaro
| first2= Maurice A.
| publisher= University of California Press
| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Li4eh7JIMtIC
| date= 1997
| location= Berkeley, CA
| isbn= 0-520-20548-0
| ref= Reference-Finocchiaro-1997
}}
* {{cite book
| title= Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
| author= Galileo Galilei
| author-link= Galileo Galilei
| url= http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/753
| publisher= Dover Publications Inc.
| date= 1954
| orig-year= 1638, 1914
| location= New York
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* {{cite journal | title = Galileo Eretico (Book Review)
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* {{cite book | last=Heilbron |first=John L.
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* {{cite book | contribution= Censorship of Astronomy in Italy after Galileo
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* {{cite book
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* {{cite book
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* {{cite book
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| date= 2003
| orig-year= 1893
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* McMullen, Emerson Thomas, ''Galileo's condemnation: The real and complex story'' (Georgia Journal of Science, vol. 61(2) 2003)
* {{cite book | title=The Church and Galileo
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* {{cite book | contribution=The Church's Ban on Copernicanism, 1616
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*{{Cite encyclopedia
| first = Ernan
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| publisher = Scribner & American Council of Learned Societies
| editor-last = Gillispie
| editor-first = Charles
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* {{cite book
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* {{cite book | title= Turning point for Europe? The Church in the Modern World – Assessment and Forecast
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| date= 1994
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*{{cite book
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*{{cite book | title= Galileo: Decisive Innovator
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*{{cite book | title= Galileo, the Jesuits and the Medieval Aristotle
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| date= 1989
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| first= Michael
| last= White
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{{refend|30em}}
== External links ==
*[http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/recent_events/Decaen-Galileo.html ''Galileo Galilei, Scriptural Exegete, and the Church of Rome, Advocate of Science''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608054230/http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/recent_events/Decaen-Galileo.html |date=2011-06-08 }} lecture ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110108175957/http://thomasaquinas.edu/news/recent_events/Galileo_Galilei-Scripture_Exegete.mp3 audio here]) by [[Thomas Aquinas College]] tutor Dr. Christopher Decaen
*[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06342b.htm "Galileo Galilei"] entry in the ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]''
*[https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-galileo-controversy "The Galileo Controversy"], published by [[Catholic Answers]]
*[http://www.bard.edu/admission/forms/pdfs/galileo.pdf ''The Starry Messenger'' (1610)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207150253/http://www.bard.edu/admission/forms/pdfs/galileo.pdf |date=2012-02-07 }}. An English translation from [http://www.bard.edu/ Bard College]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110629144745/http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/g/galilei/sidereus_nuncius/html/sidereus.htm ''Sidereus Nuncius'' (1610)] {{in lang|la}} Original Latin text at [http://www.liberliber.it/ LiberLiber] online library.
*[http://www.disf.org/en/documentation/03-Galileo_PBCastelli.asp Galileo's letter to Castelli of 1613]. The English translation given on the web page at this link is from [[#Reference-Finocchiaro-1989|Finocchiaro (1989)]], contrary to the claim made in the citation given on the page itself.
*[http://www.disf.org/en/documentation/03-Galileo_Cristina.asp Galileo's letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of 1615]
*[http://www.disf.org/en/documentation/03-Bellarmino.asp Bellarmine's letter to Foscarini of 1615]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013053/http://astro.wcupa.edu/mgagne/ess362/resources/finocchiaro.html Inquisition documents, 1616 and 1633]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070822052559/http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c02901.htm Galileo: Science and Religion] Extensively documented series of lectures by William E. Carroll and Peter Hodgson.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070713092939/http://moro.imss.fi.it/lettura/LetturaWEB.DLL?AZIONE=CATALOGO Edizione Nationale] {{in lang|it}}. A searchable online copy of Favaro's National Edition of Galileo's works at the website of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20081114183333/http://www.imss.fi.it/istituto/index.html Institute and Museum of the History of Science], Florence.
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