Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition, Book 0, (Paperback)

from nbmars

In the introductory Author's Note to The Earth Moves, Dan Hofstadter claims that he is "primarily interested in the arts" rather than the sciences, and that "Galileo's position within the general context of Baroque civilization has not much concerned historians of science." Hofstadter promises to...

from quizshow77

This book focuses rather narrowly on Galileo's interactions with the Roman Inquisition which culminated in Galileo's famous trial. In this author's account, this was not a case of religion versus science in the sense of faith versus evidence and reason. In fact, in his account this case was not r...

from Devil_llama

The author states that he is going to look at Galileo's trial in the context of art, since both Pope Urban VIII and Galileo were very interested in art and poetry. This seems like an interesting take; unfortunately, he drops most references to art after the first chapter, except occasional mentio...