Galileo's Mistake: The Archaeology of a Myth
by Wade Rowland
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Overture
Chapter 2
o An Unavailing Wall o Pope Paul V
o A Time of Crisis o Doctrinal Revolutions
Chapter 3
A Message o A Dialogue at Dinner o Science's Motives
o On Curiosity o A Negotiation
Chapter 4
The Baroque and Naturalism o Galileo as Art Critic
o Number and Beauty
o The Pythagoreans and the Reduction of Quality to Quantity
Chapter 5
Galileo the Aquarian o Ptolemy's World o Comets and Supernova
o Kepler's Genius o The Uses of Hypotheses
Chapter 6
Young Galileo o The Studies in Motion
o The Experimental Method o A Visit to Pisa
Chapter 7
Ferrara and Copernicus o The Reluctant Revolutionary
o Challenging Aristotle o A Stimulating Meeting
Chapter 8
The Stagerite o The Primacy of Mind
o The Good o Deductive Science
Chapter 9
Aristotle's Influence o A Question of Infinity
o Copernican Caution: Saving the Appearances
Chapter 10
The Padua Years o The Telescopic Discoveries o The Lure of the Medici
o The Jesuits o Rumours of Reaction
Chapter 11
In the Medician Court o The Phases of Venus o Sunspot Disputes
o Triumph in Rome o Cardinal Bellarmine
Chapter 12
Bruno's Heresy o An Infinite Universe o Aristotle's Impact
o The Struggles of Aquinas o The Return of Pythagoras
Chapter 13
Storm Warnings o Cardinal Barberini o The Conflict is Joined: Letter to
Christina o Bellarmine's Response
Chapter 14
Under Attack o A Dangerous Mission o Barberini's Argument
o Defeat in Rome o The Warning
Chapter 15
A Dialogue in Venice o On Science's Successes
o The Nature of Knowledge
Chapter 16
Further Dialogue in Venice o Science and Faith
o Faith and Reality o The Nature of Progress
Chapter 17
On the Lido o The Problem of Objectivity o Reasoning's Recursive Nature o
The Map and the Territory o An Unfortunate Outburst
Chapter 18
At Santa Maria Maggiore o Galileo's Conservatism
o Kepler's Heterodoxy o A Remarkable Fresco
Chapter 19
A Scientific Testament o Models of the World
o The Paradox of Empiricism
Chapter 20
Pope Urban VIII o Intimations of Change o Galileo's Dialogue
o The Suppression o A Summons from the Inquisition
Chapter 21
An Enigmatic Pope o A Mass in St. Peter's o A Chance Encounter
Chapter 22
A Remarkable City o History's Parochialism
o An Uncomplicated Man o The Motives of Pontiffs
Chapter 23
A Dialogue in Vatican City o Galileo's Rehabilitation o ŚLearned Ignorance'
o The Puzzle of the Abjuration
Chapter 24
The Final Journey to Rome o The Inquisition o The Denial
o The Confession o The Sentence
Chapter 25
Traces of the Past o The Collegio Romano o The Minerva
o The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Chapter 26
The Judgement and Abjuration o The Unspoken Issues
Chapter 27
The Aftermath o Return to Arcetri o Discourses on Two New Sciences
o A Visit from Hobbes o Milton's Tribute
Chapter 28
On the Road to Florence o Galileo's Tomb o Human Happiness
o Science and Number o Limits to Scientific Knowledge
o An Unfinished Journey
Galileo's Mistake:
The Archaeology of a Myth
by Wade Rowland
Pub. Date: October 2001
6" x 9" - 384 pages, with illustrations
ISBN 0-919028-42-X - $34.95 HC
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
