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_bGal/deS
100 1 _aDe Santillana, Giorgio
_d1902
245 1 4 _aThe crime of Galileo
260 _aAlexander, Va. :
_bTime-Life Books,
_c[1981] c1955.
300 _axxiv, 371 p. :
_bill. ;
_c20 x 13 cm.
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