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Church and GalileoAuthor(s): Ernan McMullin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268034849, 978-0268034849\nSynopsis\n\""The 'Galileo affair' has been the object of innumerable studies, which (taken as a whole) have spread nearly as much fog as they have sunshine. The studies in this volume, many of them based at least in part on newly discovered or released sources, have convincingly blown away much of that fog. This is easily the most important volume on the 'Galileo affair' ever produced.\"" David C. Lindberg, University of Wisconsin\n\n This collection of first-rate essays aims to provide an accurate scholarly assessment of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. In 1981, Pope John Paul II established a commission to inquire into the Church's treatment of Galileo \""in loyal recognition of wrongs, from whatever side they came,\"" hoping this way to \""dispel the mistr.