For a good summary of the various attempts, and for replies to them in a spirit of judicial fairness, see Th.

Martin, Vie de Galilee, though there is some special pleading to save the infallibility of the Pope and Church.

The bibliography at the close is very valuable.

For details of Mr.Gosse's theory, as developed in his Omphalos, see the chapter on Geology in this work.

As to a still later attempt, see Wegg-Prosser, Galileo and his Judges, London, 1889, the main thing in it being an attempt to establish, against the honest and honourable concessions of Catholics like Roberts and Mivart, sundry far-fetched and wire-drawn distinctions between dogmatic and disciplinary bulls--an attempt which will only deepen the distrust of straightforward reasoners.