The Crime of Galileo (Midway Reprint Ser)
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Author(s)Giorgio de Santillana
PublisherUniversity Of Chicago Press
ISBN / ASIN0226734811
ISBN-139780226734811
CategoryBiography & Autobiography
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The Crime of Galileo "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... Full description