De Santillana, Giorgio 1902
The crime of Galileo - Alexander, Va. : Time-Life Books, [1981] c1955. - xxiv, 371 p. : ill. ; 20 x 13 cm. - Time reading program special edition .
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Time Inc., 1955.
Scientific endeavor and social authority, in one form or another, are characteristics of man's life on his planet that are expected to endure for as long as we can see ahead. In this essay, which aims at analyzing their complex relations, we intend to go at length into the episode which provides, namely, the trial of Galileo and the circumstances that brought it about. But, as we work out the general conditions attendant and dissimilarities occur with the further phase of conflict which is being played out in our time.
0809436264 0809436272 (pbk.)
Physics
530.92 / Gal/deS
The crime of Galileo - Alexander, Va. : Time-Life Books, [1981] c1955. - xxiv, 371 p. : ill. ; 20 x 13 cm. - Time reading program special edition .
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Time Inc., 1955.
Scientific endeavor and social authority, in one form or another, are characteristics of man's life on his planet that are expected to endure for as long as we can see ahead. In this essay, which aims at analyzing their complex relations, we intend to go at length into the episode which provides, namely, the trial of Galileo and the circumstances that brought it about. But, as we work out the general conditions attendant and dissimilarities occur with the further phase of conflict which is being played out in our time.
0809436264 0809436272 (pbk.)
Physics
530.92 / Gal/deS