The Galileo Affair: a Documentary History
by Finocchiaro, Maurice A
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Notable Trials Library. As New with no dust jacket. 1991. Special Edition. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover 1/4 leather spine over gilted boards, 3 shallow bands on spine, bookplate, marbeled endpapers, all edges gilted like mirrors, unworn unread and as NEW . Introd. By alan Dershowitz; Galileo was censored because he saw the heavens through his telescope and surmised that the earth was not the center of the universe. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Mossback Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28690
- Title
- The Galileo Affair: a Documentary History
- Author
- Finocchiaro, Maurice A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Special Edition
- Publisher
- Notable Trials Library
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- GALILEO Telescope; Censorship; Church Censorship
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