Galileo Heretic (Galileo Eretico). Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. by [GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642)] REDONDI, Pietro (1950-) - 1987

Princeton, N.J.:: Princeton University Press, 1987., 1987. 8vo. x, 356 pp. 18 plates (some in color), index. Black cloth, gilt and red stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0691084513 English edition (translated from the Italian). With this book Redondi offered a controversial new perspective on the Galileo trial. Thereafter, the main reason for his condemnation was not his advocacy of the Copernican worldview, but earlier his conflict with the Jesuits in his 1623 book Il Saggiatore, in which he advanced an atomic theory that ran counter to the Catholic doctrine of the Lord's Supper. Your complaint to the Inquisition(discovered anonymously around 1624 by Redondi in the Inquisition archives) was unsuccessful at the time and the Jesuits would have seen a new chance in 1632 (Galileo process) when the Pope and the Curia, who had sponsored Galileo, were particularly affected by the Spanish Counter-Reformation page under pressure. The theses and interpretations of Redondi were mostly rejected by Galileo's researchers. / Redondi also dealt with the reception of Galileo and the idealization of Galileo in the 19th century. He also worked with the Galileo researcher Alexandre Koyre. Pietro Redondi is an Italian historian of science, known for his work on Galileo Galilei.