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Scientific endeavor & social authority, in one form or another, are characteristics of human life on the planet expected to endure for as long as we can see ahead. In this essay, which aims at analyzing their complex relations, we intend to go at length into the episode which provides, namely, the trial of Galileo & the circumstances that brought it about. But, as we work out the general conditions attendant & dissimilarities occur with the further phase of conflict which is being played out in our time.PrefaceIntroductionThe days of discovery"Domini canes"Philosophical intermezzoSaint Robert BellarmineThe decreeBellarmine's audienceThe years of silenceUrban VIIIThe "Dialogue"The summonsThe inquisitors' plightThe trialThe problem of the false injunctionChange of courseThe sentenceAftermathIndex
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Scientific endeavor and social authority, in one form or another, are characteristics of man's life on his planet that are expected to endure for as long as we can see ahead. In this essay, which aims at analyzing their complex relations, we intend to go at length into the episode which provides, namely, the trial of Galileo and the circumstances that brought it about. But, as we work out the general conditions attendant and dissimilarities occur with the further phase of conflict which is being played out in our time.
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