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Paperback The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the New Cosmology, and the Catholic Church, 1616-1633 Book

ISBN: 0393937348

ISBN13: 9780393937343

The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the New Cosmology, and the Catholic Church, 1616-1633

In The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, Aquinas, and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of the debates occur within the Holy Office, the arm of the papacy that supervises the Roman Inquisition. At times action shifts to the palace of Prince Cesi, founder of the Society of the Lynx-Eyed,...

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