Cristiano Banti, Galileo before the Inquisition

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

The Catholic Church against the Copernican system

Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo

The miracle of Joshua suspending the motion of the Sun

Cristiano Banti, Galileo before the Inquisition

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Cristiano Banti (1824-1904)
Galileo before the Inquisition, 1857
Carpi (MO), Private collection

This picture shows the Prosecutor of the Holy Office, Vincenzo Maculano, reading out to Galileo the serious charges that caused the trial of 1633 to end with the scientist's conviction on suspicion of heresy and his subsequent abjuration.