The Earth moves
Galileo and the Roman Inquisition
1st ed.
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveearthmovesgalile00hofs
- ISBN-139780393066500
- ISBN-100393066509
- LibraryThing8313247
- Goodreads6202144
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- Library of Congress Control Number2009004325
- OCLC Control Number286488363
- Better World Books9780393066500
- Open LibraryOL23169776M
Classifications
- DDC509.4/09032
- LCCQB36.G2 H64 2009
- LCCQB36.G2H64 2009
Description
Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in the history of the conflict between science and religion. In Galileo's day, Rome was the capital of a sovereign theocratic power, which in 1600 had executed Giordano Bruno on similar charges and reserved the right to torture Galileo. Galileo was then sixty-nine years old and the most venerated scientist in Italy. Although subscribing to an anti-literalist view of the Bible, as per Saint Augustine, Galileo considered himself a believing Catholic. Playing to his own strengths--a deep knowledge of Italy, a longstanding interest in Renaissance and Baroque lore--Dan Hofstadter explains apparent paradoxes and limns this historic moment in the widest cultural context, portraying Galileo as both humanist and scientist.--From publisher description.
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