ISBN:

• 9781501194733
• 1501194739

Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Description: xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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
• Galileo's and Einstein's thoughts on science and religion
• One culture!

LCCN: 2019032142

Control Number: 2868639

Subjects:

• Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography.
• Faith and reason -- Christianity.
• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
• Religion and science.
• Scientists -- Italy -- Biography.

Genre: Biographies.