Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief

Shea, William R., and Mariano Artigas, 2006, 224pp., illus., cloth bound and jacketed  Acclaim for Galileo Observed: “ . . . Summing up: Highly recommended. Upper division undergraduates through faculty.” —CHOICE, 2007 (May) “ . . . a history written to set the record straight about what really happened at Galileo’s famous trial, unmuddled by propaganda or novelizations. Skeptically examining all available historical sources, from claims that Galileo was (held) in chains and subjected to torture or that a forged document was brought forth at his trial, to numerous comparisons between Galileo and the friar Giordano Bruno, Galileo Observed strives to uncover the truth or its most likely estimation. A scholarly work illustrated with a handful of black-and-white photographs, Galileo Observed is nevertheless thoroughly accessible to lay readers and is therefore recommended for public library collections as well as those of college libraries.” —Library Bookwatch “ . . . They (the authors)