The Galileo Affair A Documentary History - UCAL POD

In 1633 The Roman Inquisition Concluded The Trial Of Galileo Galilei With A Condemnation For Heresy. The Trial Was Itself The Climax Of A Series Of Events Which Began Two Decades Earlier (in 1613) And Included Another Series Of Inquisition Proceedings In 1615-1616. Besides Marking The End Of The Controversy That Defines The Original Episode, The Condemnation Of 1633 Also Marks The Beginning Of Another Classic Controversy-about The Galileo Affair, Its Causes, Its Implications, And Its Lessons; About Whether, For Example, John Milton Was Right When In The Areopagitica He Commented On His Visit To Galileo In Florence By Saying: There It Was That I Found And Visited The Famous Galileo, Grown Old A Prisoner To The Inquisition, For Thinking In Astronomy Otherwise Than The Franciscan And Dominican Licensers Thought.