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Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church
Fantoli, Annibale. Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church. 3rd ed. Translated by George V. Coyne. Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications, 2012.
Why this matters here
Fantoli’s Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church emphasizes the complexity of Church scholarship alongside doctrinal guardianship, resisting a cartoon duel between science and religion. When Authority Is Misread follows that framing: Galileo forced into the open a contest over who may decide which forms of seeing are admissible when new instruments change what counts as evidence. The book’s claim concerns interpretive permission under new instruments, not a story of solitary genius against uniform ignorance.
