United States, 222, 226
universe, xi, 66, 84, 154, 163, 176, 181, 189, 208, 213 age of, 236
beginning and evolution of, 235, 236, 256
geocentric theory of, xiii, 24, 47–48, 68, 72, 77, 98, 111, 114, 117, 119, 121, 132, 146, 161–62, 167, 170, 171, 197, 214
Urban VIII, Pope, 11, 57, 114, 118, 150–51, 158–59, 161, 163–66, 172, 188, 192, 201 Galileo’s falling out with, 175–81, 195–96, 211
Vale, Giuseppe, 214, 254
Vallombrosa monastery, 20
Valori, Baccio, 25
Varchi, Benedetto, 33
Vasari, Giorgio, 6
Vatican, 12, 109
Vatican City, 215
Vellutello, Alessandro, 26–27
Venetian Republic, 38, 52, 112
Venice, 9, 44, 51, 52, 54, 86, 91, 127, 202, 203 arsenal in, 43
Grand Canal of, 42
Venice art Biennale, 43
Venus, 4, 72–75 crescent, 72–73
orbit around the Sun by, 68, 72–73, 75, 77–78
phases of, 57, 72–74, 73, 75, 77, 94, 95, 107
Very Brief Pilgrimage Against the Sidereal Messenger Recently Sent to All Philosophers and Mathematicians by Galileo Galilei, A (Horky), 88
Vesalius, Andreas, 7
Vinta, Belisario, 68
Virgil, 93
Virgin Mary, 120
Visconti, Raffaele, 165
Viviani, Vincenzo, 5–6, 19–20, 22–23, 28, 31–33, 210, 211, 230
Voice of Christian Youth America radio program, 225
Wales, 91
Washington Post, 218
wealth, accumulation of, 8
weights: center-of-mass of, 25
Galileo’s experiments with free fall of, 31–34
system of, 21
see also falling bodies
Weinberg, Steven, 226
Welser, Markus, 71, 76–78, 81, 85–86, 111, 246
“What I Believe” (Einstein), 227
Whetham, William Cecil Dampier, 32
Wigner, Eugene, 15, 154
Wilding, Nick, 61
Wittenberg, 76
Wolfflin, Heinrich, 5
Wootton, David, 14, 244
World War I, 229
Wotton, Henry, 91
Zarlino, Gioseffo, 17–18
Zeus, 69
Zúñiga, Diego de, 132
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Names: Livio, Mario, 1945– author.
Title: Galileo and the denialists / Mario Livio.
Description: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032142 | ISBN 9781501194733 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501194788 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642. | Astronomers—Italy—Biography. | Scientists—Italy—Biography. | Religion and science. | Faith and reason-—Christianity.
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