Retrying Galileo.(Book review)

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RETRYING GALILEO. By Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Berkeley: University of California, 2005. Pp. xii + 485. $50.

Galileo's trial did not end on June 22, 1633. An as yet unending debate followed concerning the reasons for, and the righteousness of, the Church's condemnation of the scientist. As Maurice Finocchiaro traces, Galileo has been "retried" repeatedly. F. became known to Galilean scholars with his Galileo and the Art of Reasoning (1980). He then offered a useful English translation of documents relating to the original case, The Galileo Affair (1989), followed by Galileo on ...

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