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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), professor of mathematics at the University of Padua from 1592 to 1610, was a pillar in the history of our University.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
This article examines Galileo's confrontations with the Holy Office of the Roman Inquisition in light of the rules and technicalities of inquisitorial.

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Galileo and Nineteenth-Century British Readers

ISSN 2038-3533 B.G. .X. BIBLIOTECA DI GALILÆANA Quale impatto e influenza ebbero gli scritti di Galileo nell’Europa moderna? In quali ambienti scientifici, filosofici, letterari e politici hanno circolato? Chi furono i suoi lettori e come furono lette le sue opere? Quali interpretazioni e quali contaminazioni hanno prodotto? Quanto le note vicende inquisitoriali hanno influito nella diffusione delle sue idee nel mondo cattolico e protestante? Quanto la vicenda della sua condanna e della sua abiura ha alimentato la costruzione del mito di Galileo? Alcune risposte a questi interrogativi si troveranno in questo libro, che riunisce gli atti del Convegno internazionale tenuto a Firenze nei giorni 29-31 gennaio 2020 e che ha visto la collaborazione tra storici della scienza, della società e della politica in età moderna e contemporanea, della filosofia, dell’arte, della letteratura e del teatro. ISBN 978 88 222 6740 5 THE SCIENCE AND MYTH OF GALILEO .X. Between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Europe OLSCHKI MMXXI LEO S. OLSCHKI

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Galileo Galilei: Science vs. faith

Introduction

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), professor of mathematics at the University of Padua from 1592 to 1610, was a pillar in the history of our University and a symbol of freedom for research and teaching, well stated in the university motto “Universa Universis Patavina Libertas” (Total freedom in Padua, open to all the world).¹ He invented the experimental method, based on evidence and calculation (“science is measure”)² and was able, by using the telescope, to confirm the Copernican heliocentric theory, a challenge to the Bible. Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), in his book “The Problems of Philosophy” stated: “Almost everything that distinguishes modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved the most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Together with Harvey, Newton and Keplero, Galileo was a protagonist of this scientific revolution in the late Renaissance”.³

His life was a continuous struggle to defend science from the influence of religious prejudices. He was catholic, forced by the Inqui

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