Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dan HofstadterSeries:Great Discoveries (Paperback)Publish date:2010-05-10Pages:242
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393338201ISBN-10:393338207UPC:9780393338201Book Category:Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:History, Religion & Science, ChristianityBook Topic:HistorySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCX3WF04GQ
Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition
Galileo was then sixty-nine years old and the most venerated scientist in Italy. Although subscribing to an anti-literalist view of the Bible, as per Saint Augustine, Galileo considered himself a believing Catholic Playing to his own strengths a deep knowledge of Italy, a longstanding interest in Renaissance and Baroque lore Dan Hofstadter explains this apparent paradox and limns this historic...
Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393338201ISBN-10:393338207UPC:9780393338201Book Category:Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:History, Religion & Science, ChristianityBook Topic:HistorySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCX3WF04GQ
Hofstadter, Dan: - Dan Hofstadter is the author of The Earth Moves and Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples (a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). He has lived in Florence and Naples and speaks and reads Italian fluently. He lives in Rensselaerville, New York.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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