The “Galileo Affair” has been the locus of various and opposing appraisals for centuries: some view it as an historical event emblematic of the obscurantism

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"Richard Blackwell offers yet another important volume for our understanding of the context and thought around the trial of Galileo and more broadly the interac

In 1633, the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo as a suspected heretic for defending Copernicus's hypothesis of the earth's motion and denying the scientific a