Ebook: Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992

The condemnation of Galileo (1633) -- Promulgation and diffusion of the news (1633-1651) -- Emblematic reactions : Descartes, Peiresc, Galileo's daughter (1633-1642) -- Polarizations : secularism, liberalism, fundamentalism (1633-1661) -- Compromises : Viviani, Auzout, Leibniz (1654-1704) -- Myth-making or enlightenment? Pascal, Voltaire, the Encyclopedia (1657-1777) -- Incompetence or enlightenment? Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) -- New lies, documents, myths, apologies (1758-1797) -- Napoleonic wars and trials (1810-1821) -- The inquisition on Galileo's side? The Settele Affair (1820) and beyond (1835) -- Varieties of torture : demythologizing Galileo's trial? (1835-1867) -- A miscarriage of justice? The documentation of impropriety (1867-1879) -- Galileo right again, wrong again : hermeneutics, epistemology, "heresy" (1866-1928) -- A Catholic hero : tricentennial rehabilitation (1941-1947) -- Secular indictments : Brecht's atomic bomb and Koestler's two cultures (1947-1959) -- History on trial : the Paschini Affair (1941-1979) -- More "rehabilitation" : Pope John Paul II (1979-1992).