Pt. I. Defending Copernicus: 1. The geostatic world view ; 2. The Copernican controversy ; 3. Galileo's stances toward Copernican astronomy ; 4. Galilean critiques of the biblical objection ; 5. Galileo on the mathematical physics of terrestrial extrusion ; 6. Galilean rationality in the Copernican revolution - Pt. II. Defending Galileo: 7. The trial of Galileo, 1613-1633 ; 8. The Galileo Affair, 1633-1992 ; 9. Galileo right for the wrong reasons? ; 10. Galileo as a bad theologian? ; 11. Galileo as a bad epistemologist? ; 12. Galileo as a symbol of science versus religion?