An insightful, accessible, and fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most f
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Table of contents :
Rebel with a cause --
A humanist scientist --
A leaning tower and inclined planes --
A Copernican --
Every action has a reaction --
Into a minefield --
This proposition is foolish and absurd --
A battle of pseudonyms --
The assayer --
The Dialogo --
The gathering storm --
The trial --
I abjure, curse, and detest --
One old man, two new sciences --
Galileo : the final years --
The saga of Pio Paschini --
On the interface between science and religion : Galileo and Einstein --
One culture!