Summary Of Galileo Goes To Jail

Summary of “Introduction” of the Book Galileo Goes To Jail

The following is the summary of “introduction” section of the book named Galileo Goes to Jail edited by Ronald L. Numbers. In the book, the author’s aim is to correct the misconceptions about the conflicts between science and religious faiths, which had been overlapping for hundreds of years. Accordingly, the author is suggesting that the above warfare can be reduced by clarifying some false beliefs, which are labeled as “myths” (Numbers 9). In order to that Numbers trying to confirm that some claims rose by philosophers are myths and those are knotted with the science and religion. Also, he is opening those complex knots to clarify the contradictory thoughts of scientific philosophers and theological leaders. Thus he is giving some philosophers ideas and

Accordingly Andrew Dickson White and John William Draper were the strong believers in the nineteenth century who actively participated in the propaganda of the war on science and religion (Numbers 6). The White did talk about this concept by using fiery words thus, his talk sparked (Numbers 7). He ended up his talk as “Giordano Bruno’s being burned alive as a monster of impiety” (Numbers 7), but Numbers labeling this as a ‘myth’, which is used as a weapon to make his opinion to be sparkled (Number 9). Similarly Draper showed his opposition by attacking the religion. He condemned the Roman Catholics with a number of reasons; while White wrote that the Bible is the barrier for the improvement of the science (Numbers 7). Consequently, public started oppositions by the persuasive stories of White and Draper caused provoke the battle of science and religion among them. So, Numbers disclose both White and Draper as great mythmakers and in he is trying to correct those myths, which is caught as truth among the public (Numbers