The Crime of Galileo

by Giorgio de Santillana

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

ISBN-10 0226734811

ISBN-13 9780226734811

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 15th, 1978

Print length 354 Pages

Weight 586 grams

Dimensions 15.60 x 23.20 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: History of science

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"In the gallery of what might be called the martyrs of thought, the image of Galileo recanting before the Italian Inquisition stirs the minds of educated modern men second only to the picture of Socrates drinking the Hemlock. That image of Galileo is out of focus . . . because it has been distorted by three centuries of rationalist prejudice and clerical polemics. To refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own time . . . de Santillana has written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal tragedy."—Time

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