Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right: Abridged version

Did the Catholic Church make a grand and embarrassing mistake when it condemned the heliocentric system under Pope Urban VIII in 1633 as “formally heretical” and “opposed to Scripture”? Has modern science actually proven heliocentrism to be the correct cosmology? Did John Paul II officially concede that Galileo was right and the Church wrong? To the surprise of many, the answer to all three is no.

This is the abridged edition of the landmark Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right. The original three-volume set ran to more than 1,200 pages; here its essential facts and figures have been distilled into roughly 700 pages, about 350 of science and 350 of ecclesiastical history, in a comfortable 6 x 9 paperback that puts one of the most controversial episodes in human history within easy reach.