Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992

The condemnation of Galileo (1633)

Promulgation and diffusion of the news (1633-1651)

Emblematic reactions: Descartes, Peiresc, Galileo's daughter (1633-1642)

Secularism, liberalism, fundamentalism (1633-1661)

Compromises: Viviani, Auzout, Leibniz (1654-1704)

Myth-making or enlightenment? Pascal, Voltaire, the Encyclopedia (1657-1777)

Incompetence or enlightenment? Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758)

New lies, documents, myths, apologies (1758-1797)

Napoleonic wars and trials (1810-1821)

The inquisition on Galileo's side? The Settele affairs (1820) and beyond (1835)

Varieties of torture: Demythologizing Galileo's trial? (1835-1867)

A miscarriage of justice? The documentation of impropriety (1867-1879)

Galileo right again, wrong again: Hermeneutics, epistemology, "Heresy" (1866-1928)

A catholic hero: tricentennial rehabilitation (1941-1947)

Secular indictments: Brecht's atomic bomb and Koestler's two cultures (1947-1959)

History on trial: the Paschini Affair (1941-1979)

More "rehabilitation": Pope John Paul II (1979-1992).