From Myth to history and back.(Galileo In Rome: The Rise And Fall Of A...

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...GALILEO IN ROME: THE RISE AND FALL OF A TROUBLESOME GENIUS. By WILLIAM R. SHEA AND MARIANO ARTIGAS. Oxford University Press. 211pp. $20. GALILEO'S MISTAKE: A NEW LOOK AT THE EPIC CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GALILEO AND THE CHURCH. By WADE ROWLAND. Arcade. 298pp. $26.95. For centuries the trial of Galileo...

Center Stage's `Galileo' almost touches heaven.(Arts)(Theater)

The Washington Times;  October 6, 1996 ;     615 words ...Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, now playing at Baltimore's Center Stage, can be called a battle between Galileo's provable truths (The Earth moves! It is...although that certainly looms large. In Galileo, written in 1939 and rewritten in the mid-194...

Historical Notes: Galileo insulted the Pope, not the Church

The Independent - London;  April 1, 1999 ;     618 words ...GALILEO GALILEI, in the early 1600s, was a man driven both by personal...become, for future generations, the symbol of such conflict. Galileo was one of the first to scrutinise the heavens through...like Aristotle rather than bother with telescopes, and Galileo's way of doing science, examining nature to ...

TWO VIEWS OF THE UNIVERSE; Galileo vs. the Pope

The Washington Post;  September 9, 1998 ;     700+ words ...On June 22, 1633, Galileo Galilei was put on trial at Inquisition...pitiable state of bodily indisposition," Galileo was charged with "vehement suspicion...Inquisition. Ten cardinals sat in judgment of Galileo. Pope Urban VIII was not present in person...

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

The Catholic Historical Review;  October 1, 2002 ;     684 words ...Galileo's Daughter. A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and...Benedetto Castelli, former student and correspondent of Galileo. Not surprisingly, the conversation soon turned to the...commanded the sun to stand still. Later, in a letter to Galileo, Castelli indicated that he had defended the new ...

'Nova' brings Galileo's life, accomplishments down to earth.(Suburban...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  October 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Ted Cox Galileo gets his due - but no more than he's...special from PBS' fine Nova science series. Galileo is said to have created modern science...at 8 p.m. Tuesday on WTTW Channel 11, Galileo's Battle for the Heavens shows how the...

Retrying Galileo.(Book review)

Theological Studies;  March 1, 2007 ;     662 words ...RETRYING GALILEO. By Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Berkeley...California, 2005. Pp. xii + 485. $50. Galileo's trial did not end on June 22, 1633...scientist. As Maurice Finocchiaro traces, Galileo has been retried repeatedly. F. became...

GALILEO'S MISTAKE: BOOKS / Nonfiction

International Herald Tribune;  July 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 GALILEO'S MISTAKE: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church By Wade Rowland. Illustrated. 298...Reviewed by Michael Massing* The gripping story of Galileo's trial before the Roman Inquisition is one of...

'Galileo's Battle for the Heavens'; A Tale of Truth, Science And a...

The Washington Post;  October 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ...In 1633, Galileo Galilei, the father of modern science...science series "Nova" tells both stories in "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens," a two-hour...based on Dava Sobel's 1999 bestseller, "Galileo's Daughter." British actor Simon Callow...

Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Mario Biagioli. Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy...35. ISBN: 0-226-04561-7. More than a decade ago, in Galileo, Courtier, Mario Biagioli argued that Galileo's science depended upon his masterly exploitation of...

Works of Bertolt Brecht: Galileo (1939: Leben Des Galilei)

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ...Brecht, Bertolt Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Galileo (1939: Leben Des Galilei) Introduction: Galileo is based on historical fact. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) was a great Italian physicist and astronomer whose investigations...

Galileo International Elaborates on Previously Announced Organizational...

PR Newswire;  October 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Galileo Announces New Management Team Under Mark E. Miller's Leadership PARSIPPANY, N.J., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Galileo International, a leading provider of electronic global...organizational changes related to Cendant's acquisition of Galileo and named a new management team. (Photo: http://www.newscom...

galileo hosts training workshops in cairo

Al Bawaba;  October 18, 2007 ;     385 words ...Galileo, a leading global distribution system (GDS) and part of...an initiative to increase awareness and understanding of Galileo's global products. Hosted at the Egypt Air Corporate Headquarters in Cairo and facilitated by Don Smith, Galileo's regional product manager for Africa and the Middle East...

Magnifico! Galileo and Jupiter.(The end of Galileo)(deliberate destruction...

The Economist (US);  September 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Galileo, a spacecraft that has been studying Jupiter, will self-destru...glorious decade of exploration WHEN, on September 21st, Galileo plunges into Jupiter's atmosphere and burns up, it will...contaminate Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Europa, according to Galileo's instruments, has an environment that ...

Finocchiaro, Maurice A. Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992.(Book Review)

The Review of Metaphysics;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...FINOCCHIARO, Maurice A. Retrying Galileo: 1633-1992. Berkeley: University of California...fascinating survey of what the author calls The Galileo Affair, from Descartes to John Paul II, that is, from Galileo's condemnation in 1633 to his alleged rehabilitation...