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List of Illustrations
1. Galileo Devant le Saint Office (Galileo Before the Inquisition) Robert-Fleury xviii © Bettmann/CORBIS
2. Portrait of Galileo by Justus Sustermans xxiv Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence/ Bridgeman Art Library, London
3. Diagram of falling objects 18
4. Galileo’s experiment with falling bodies dropped from Leaning Tower of Pisa 23 © Bettmann/CORBIS
5. Robert Cardinal Bellarmine 27 AKG London
6. Ptolemaic universe, by Andreas Cellarius 30 The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Art Library, London
7. Copernican universe, from De revolutionibus31 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome
8. Diagram of Galileo’s pendulum 33
9. Supernova of 1604 41 Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Kansas City, Missouri
10. Galileo’s telescopes 47 © Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence. Photo: AKG London
11. Galileo’s diagrams of the moons of Jupiter 49 Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence

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  • List of Illustrations xv
  • Introduction xvii
  • Chapter 1 - The Background 1
  • Chapter 2 - Galileo's Early Years 16
  • Chapter 3 - Conflicts with Philosophers 40
  • Chapter 4 - Conflicts with Astronomers and Theologians 63
  • Chapter 5 - The Dialogue and the Inquisition 88
  • Chapter 6 - The Final Years 101
  • Further Reading 119
  • Index 123
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