Person

Annibale Fantoli

Historian of Galileo's conflict with the Church, attentive to cosmology, obedience, and institutional fear.

Why this matters

Fantoli frames misread authority—when doctrinal office meets observational claim.

Works

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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.

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