This collection of first-rate essays aims to provide an accurate scholarly assessment of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. In 1981

This book questions the traditional "grand narratives" of science and religion in the seventeenth-century. The known contradictions between the documents of Gal

A penetrating account of the confrontation between Galileo and the Church of Rome

"A devastating attack upon the dominance of atheism in science today." Giovanni Fazio, Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The debate

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally