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_a530.92 _bGal/deS |
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_aDe Santillana, Giorgio _d1902 |
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245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe crime of Galileo |
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_aAlexander, Va. : _bTime-Life Books, _c[1981] c1955. |
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_axxiv, 371 p. : _bill. ; _c20 x 13 cm. |
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440 | 0 | _aTime reading program special edition | |
500 | _aReprint. Originally published: New York : Time Inc., 1955. | ||
520 | _aScientific 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. | ||
650 | _aPhysics | ||
942 | _cBK |