GALILEO HERETIC
by Pietro Redondi
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0691084513
- ISBN 13
- 9780691084510
- Seller
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Pomona, New York, United States
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About This Item
New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0691084513 . Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light stain on bottom text block edge. ; Galileo Eretico; 9.9 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 356 pages .
Reviews
On Apr 11 2009, KarenL said:
An interesting twist on the tired story of Galileo v the Church. While Galileo did use telescopes to look at the moon and sun, he was a scientist and a great reader --- He also was atomist, or a believer in invisible corpuscles [Read his "The Assayer" 1623] of matter that could not be changed.
Thinking like this was dangerous in 1600's The Council of Trent produced reams of parchment on all sorts of topic -- one was the belief of Transubstantion. The 30 Years War was ongoing. It was not wise to have a scientist teach that atoms of x could not become q with magic words.
I enjoyed this book, its research, and its use of Latin. It open the door for more research.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 158496
- Title
- GALILEO HERETIC
- Author
- Pietro Redondi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0691084513
- ISBN 13
- 9780691084510
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0691084513
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....