Description:
The Case of Galileo presents the scientific, philosophical, and theological factors that impacted Galileo's trial, all set within the historical progression of Galileo's writing and personal interactions with his contemporaries.
Brief description:
An internationally known Galileo scholar, Annibale Fantoli received his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Rome and his Licentiate degree in philosophy and theology from the Gregorian University. He has taught courses in cosmology and the philosophy of science at the Universities of Sophia, Aoyama, and Musashino. He is adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria. An English edition of his biography Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church was published in 1994 by the Vatican Observatory and distributed by the University of Notre Dame Press. It has since reached a third edition and been translated into several languages.
Review Quotes:
"George Coyne has beautifully rendered into English Annibale Fantoli's original Italian text." --Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly