Annibale fantoli biography definition

The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question?
By Annibale Fantoli (Notre Dame Press, 2012)

Annibale Fantoli’s The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? opens where most Galileo books end—with the aging, nearly blind astronomer kneeling before a panel of seven cardinals as they pronounce him “vehemently suspected of heresy, namely.

. . that the sun is the center of the world.” Four centuries later, this scene seems absurd.

Annibale fantoli biography definition

Lay scholars and church hierarchy disagree about many things, but the earth revolving around the sun is not one of them.

For readers with a desire to uncover more than the familiar, but inaccurate, narrative of the Galileo case as one of science versus faith, Fantoli thoroughly examines the exact issues Galileo, his allies, and his critics confronted.

They debated whether the Bible was being literal when it reported that Joshua stopped the sun. Several Jesuit scientists, historically considered Galileo’s most aggressive adversaries, agreed that Galileo’s observations