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Galileo: Life

• Galileo: life - Part III

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Galileo: Life

• The Condemnation of 1616– Galileo while on a

social visit to Rome, was called before Cardinal Bellarmine (Bellarmino) and, at the Pope’s instructions, was informed of the forthcoming

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Galileo: Life

condemnation of Copernicanism & was ordered to no longer teach and defend the theory.

– Galileo acquiesced to the order.

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Galileo: Life

Michael Sharratt observes that “it was the intervention of the Inquisition and the Index in 1616 that was at the root of the trouble [the later trial]. That was when it all went wrong. . . . “ (131). (Michael Sharratt. Galileo: Decisive Innovator Cambridge UP, 1994)

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– The next day, the Congregation of the Index issued a public condemnation of the Copernican theory.

– In 1623, Pope Gregory XV died; Matteo Barbarini elected new pope & took the name of Urban VIII.

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Galileo: Life

– Galileo was acquainted with him through previous visits to Rome. In 1624, Galileo visited Urban VIII six times.

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Galileo: Life

– In 1632, on the assumption that there was a new spirit of openness in Rome, Galileo published the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems--Ptolemaic and Copernican.

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Galileo: Life

– Contains a strong defense of the Copernican theory, albeit disguised in the dialogue form.•Defends

Copernicanism with “Galilean relativity.”

•Proposes a version of the principle of inertia.

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Galileo: Life

– Galileo miscalculated the mood in Rome.

– In 1632, he was ordered to appear before the Roman Inquisition.

– Trial began in early 1633.•To life, part IV