Defending Copernicus and Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs: 280 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 280)

by Maurice A . Finocchiaro (Author)

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  2010

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  Galileo's trial over his theories on the Earth's motion ended with his condemnation by the Inquisition. This book judiciously compares and contrasts that trial and the subsequent controversy over the rightness of that condemnation continuing to our day.