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Galileo: heretic

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The author has been most thorough in research and devotes great detail and attention to our understanding of the thought, political, social and religious forces of that milieu. The story of Galileo's trial and imprisonment is engaging.
The book is easily put aside. Hundreds of figures over centuries who contributed to the events culminating in the trial enter and leave the pages of the book as players on the stage of a drama. The players, both important and relatively minor, do not play their parts in chronological order in this book. It is difficult to find a thread of thought or story which holds one's attention. In the end, the final events causing the trial of Galileo are not complex or lengthy. The actual causes and culmination of the trial are few and easily conveyed. The book does give the reader a thorough knowledge of a vast, detailed, historical setting for the drama.

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233.11 RED g

Z. HANDIMAN

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233.11 RED g

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press., 1987

Collation

x,356p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-691-08451-3

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233.11

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CREATION - HUMANKIND

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