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Galileo's Inquisition Trial Revisited
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Galileo's Inquisition Trial Revisited Hardcover - 2008

by Jules Speller


From the publisher

This book shows that the known accounts of Galileo's trial leave many important facts unexplained or even clash with them. A most careful reading of the relevant documents and treatises backs an interpretation which has Pope Urban VIII sue Galileo for denying God's omnipotence or His omniscience by admitting the absolute truth of Copernicanism. The Pope's opinion results from an argument he fully trusts, together with his belief that Galileo failed to fulfill a condition to which the publication of the Dialogue was subjected. That the trial does not end with a conviction for Urban's awful formal heresy but merely for vehement suspicion of heresy , with the heresy consisting in the pseudo-heretical belief in a doctrine contrary to the Bible, all this is due to the existence of a Galileo-friendly party inside the Holy Office, led by Cardinal Francesco Barberini and powerful enough to wring a compromise from the Pope.

Details

  • Title Galileo's Inquisition Trial Revisited
  • Author Jules Speller
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
  • Date 2008-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9783631562291 / 3631562292
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Religious
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Galilei, Galileo - Trials, litigation, etc, Religion and science - Italy - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008459307
  • Dewey Decimal Code 520.92

About the author

The Author: Jules Speller, born in 1943, studied Philosophy, Classics and Romance languages and literatures at the Universities of Strasbourg, Caen, and Wrzburg from 1962 to 1966, submitting in 1969 a thesis on the role of language in Robert Reininger's theory of knowledge. From 1975 to 1996 he taught at the Dpartement de Droit et des Sciences conomiques of the Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg , first as a Lecturer in Logic, and subsequently as Professor of Philosophy. He has published articles or delivered papers on logic, on the theory of argumentation, and, more recently, on Galileo's trial. He is also the author of a work on Mozart's Magic Flute.