
The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo by the Inquisition is that of Science and Reason persecuted by Ignorance and Superstition -- of Galileo as a lonely, courageous freethinker oppressed by a reactionary and anti-intellectual institution fearful of...

A provocative reexamination of one of the defining confrontations between science and religion, the historic conflict between Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church.


