The Crime of Galileo
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Format
Paperback / Softback
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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