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 logic of its own time . . . de Santillana has written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal tragedy."—Time |
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Contents
THE DAYS OF DISCOVERY | 7 |
DOMINI CANES | 29 |
PHILOSOPHICAL INTERMEZZO | 58 |
SAINT ROBERT BELLARMINE | 76 |
THE DECREE | 112 |
BELLARMINES AUDIENCE | 127 |
THE YEARS OF SILENCE | 147 |
URBAN VIII | 162 |
THE SUMMONS | 189 |
THE INQUISITORS PLIGHT | 227 |
THE TRIAL | 239 |
THE PROBLEM OF THE FALSE INJUNCTION | 263 |
CHANGE OF COURSE | 277 |
THE SENTENCE | 294 |
AFTERMATH | 324 |
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| Title | The Crime of Galileo Issue 14 of Mercury books Midway reprint Page 40 of Phoenix books Special edition / Time Reading Program The Crime of Galileo, Giorgio De Santillana Time reading program special edition |
| Authors | Giorgio de Santillana, Giorgio Santillano |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1955 |
| ISBN | 0226734811, 9780226734811 |
| Length | 338 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology Social Science / General |
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