The church and Galileo

Introduction / Ernan McMullin

1. heliocentric "heresy" : from suspicion to condemnation / Michel-Pierre Lerner

2. refusal to accommodate : Jesuit exegetes and the Copernican system / Irving A. Kelter

3. Setting the stage : Galileo in Tuscany, the Veneto, and Rome / Michael H. Shank

4. Galileo's theological venture / Ernan McMullin

5. disputed injunction and its role in Galileo's trial / Annibale Fantoli

6. church's ban on Copernicanism, 1616 / Ernan McMullin

7. documents of Galileo's trial : recent hypotheses and historical criticism / Francesco Beretta

8. New light on the Galileo affair? / Mariano Artigas, Rafael Martinez and William R. Shea

9. Galileo, Urban VIII, and the prosecution of natural philosophers / Francesco Beretta

10. Galileo's relapse : on the publication of the letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1636) / Stephane Garcia

11. Censorship of astronomy in Italy after Galileo / John L. Heilbron

12. Galileo's "rehabilitation" : elbow-room in theology / Michael Sharratt

13. church's most recent attempt to dispel the Galileo myth / George V. Coyne.