Galileo's Children: Scientific Discovery Vs. the Power of the State by Bailey, George - 1990

Arcade Publishing, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged.

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Arcade Pub, New York, 1990.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, Hard Cover near fine in beige pictorial dj. 458 pages. The progress of science measured by the lives of three scientists--Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who presided over the invention of the atomic bomb, strongly advocated that the hydrogen bomb should not be developed. His political views led to an examination by the Atomic Energy Commission's security board in 1954. Andrei Sakharov, "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, " was summoned before the U.S.S. R's deputy prosecutor general, then persecuted, for his human rights activities. In this dense study, Bailey ( The Germans ) draws parallels between these two dissenters and a third--Galileo, whose scientific discoveries displeased an Inquisition tribunal. This analogy breaks down as Bailey devotes chapters to Marxism and its adoption in Russia, to the pseudoscience of Soviet botanist Trofim Lysenko, who flourished under Stalin, to Chernobyl, the European ecology movement and… Read More

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New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 458 pages. Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. Small remainder stripe across top edge, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good+ dust-jacket. .