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In The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded
by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of
Aristotle, Aquinas, and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in
Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of the
debates occur within the Holy Office, the arm of the papacy that
supervises the Roman Inquisition. At times action shifts to the
palace of Prince Cesi, founder of the Society of the Lynx-Eyed,
which promotes the new science, and to the lecture halls of the
Jesuit Collegio Romano. Some students assume roles as faculty of
the Collegio Romano and the secular University of Rome, the
Sapienza. Others are cardinals who seek to defend the faith from
resurgent Protestantism, the imperial ambitions of the Spanish
monarch, the schemes of the Medici in Florence, and the crisis of
faith throughout Christendom. Some embrace the "new cosmology,"
some denounce it, and still others are undecided. The issues range
from the nature of faith and the meaning of the Bible to the
scientific principles and methods as advanced by Copernicus,
Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo. Central texts
include Aristotle's On the Heavens and Posterior Analytics;
Galileo's Starry Messenger (1610), Letter to Grand Duchess
Christina (1615) and Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
(1632); the declarations of the Council of Trent; and the Bible.
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