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Galileo, A Very Short Introduction
by Stillman Drake
- SCIENCE
- 2001
- PAPER
- 152 PAGES
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In a startling reinterpretation of Galileo's trial, Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's prosecution and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers.
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