Galileo – A Quick Summary
The Galileo story is complicated, but often gets boiled down to a false narrative of a solitary hero up against a bunch of science deniers. The truth?
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Galileo and the Science Deniers – a Review
Christina of Lorraine had astronomy questions for Fr. Benedetto Castelli, so she sat him down to get answers. The conversation occurred in December of 1613,...
Three Galileo Surprises (and a bunch of unanswered questions)
I’ve worked at the Vatican Observatory for a quarter of a century, and as you can imagine I’ve gotten a lot of questions about Galileo! When I reply I try...
Strange Tales of Galileo and Proving: Telescopic Evidence for Earth’s Immobility through Double Stars
Benedetto Castelli This is the fourth in a series of posts on the subject of Galileo and proving the Earth’s motion. This is the year 2017, and 2017 marks...
Galileo’s Newly-Discovered Letter
This past September the journal Nature reported on how a long-lost letter of Galileo has been recently found by a science historian at the University of...
Strange Tales of Galileo and Proving: Splitting the Stars
This is the third in a series of posts on the subject of Galileo and proving the Earth’s motion. The first post was on how even books for children and...
Jesuits and Galileo
Historians still argue the roots of Galileo’s trial in 1633. Galileo himself blamed the Jesuits…
Galileo on the decree of the Congregation of the Index: It’s Ingoli’s Fault!
What a time to come on board the Catholic Astronomer blog with the purpose of writing about topics in the history of astronomy! Ten days ago I wrote about how...
Galileo on the decree of the Congregation of the Index: It’s Ingoli’s Fault! (re-run)
(This is a “re-run” of a post that originally ran in March 2016.) What a time to come on board the Catholic Astronomer blog with the purpose of writing...
Galileo’s Newly-Discovered Letter: The Scholarship is Published (re-run)
This is a “re-run” of a post that originally ran in March. At that time it was a “members only” post. Today marks one year since...