...Although the 1633 condemnation ended the original Galileo affair, it also started a new controversy that has continued to this day—about the facts, causes, issues, and implications of the original trial. Galileo's trial shows the clash between conservation and innovation and constitutes one battle...

...This chapter explores the four defining documents, namely the Inquisition's Sentence (1633), Galileo's Abjuration, the Index's Anti-Copernican Decree, and the Index's Correction of Copernicus' Revolutions, in order to understand the condemnation of Galileo and the controversy...

... element involving personal frailties and political intrigue. After Galileo's condemnation, information about the trial was first promulgated by officials of the Catholic Church through readings at meetings of professors of philosophy and mathematics, and through summaries circulated on printed posters...

...The Church's unprecedented effort to promulgate Galileo's sentence and abjuration is evidence of the attempt to generalize Galileo's case, to derive general prescriptions from his condemnation. This chapter investigates how some state authorities reacted to Galileo's condemnation. The Catholic...

... encouraged church officials to adopt toward the issue of the scientific (philosophical) authority of Scripture an attitude similar to that adopted toward the issue of the earth's motion. It is clear that Jesuit Pietro Lazzari was addressing not the issue of the condemnation of Galileo...

...In 1633, at the end of one of the most famous trials in history, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for contending that the Earth moves and that the Bible is not a scientific authority. Galileo's condemnation set off a controversy that has acquired a fascinating life of its own and that continues...